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o3 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

o3 Mini leads Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 12.5 to 7.5, and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs 14.7x less per output token ($0.30 vs $4.40 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 42 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace o3 Mini Replace Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
o3 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
38.0
Output $/M
$4.40
12
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Qwen
Coding
No data
Overall
41.5
Output $/M
$0.30
30
vs boards won of 42 shared

o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick o3 Mini for work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

Model Ao3 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507QwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
42
o3 Mini only
29
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 only
3
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
o3 Mini not benchmarked, Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 not benchmarked.
Widest category
General, 8.7 points apart on average over 21 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run): o3 Mini 77.0% against Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 55.6%, 21.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
o3 Mini $4.40 against Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 $0.30 per million output tokens, 14.7x apart.
Context window
o3 Mini takes 200K tokens, Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
Categoryo3 MiniBarsQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Ties
Coding32
Intelligence10
Agentic work10
Reasoning33
Math21
Knowledge05
General219
All shared boards1230
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index32
Coding benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
Aider polyglot60.4%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified42.4%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
SWE-bench Lite32.3%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)71.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)73.4%70.7%o3 Mini
SciCode42.8%33.0%o3 Mini
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)6.8%6.1%o3 Mini
GSO-Bench1.3%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
WeirdML43.7%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Cybench22.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding13781416Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: software and IT13641417Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
SciCode7.7%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
AA Intelligence Index12.57.5o3 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index140.2Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
τ²-Bench Telecom31.3%28.1%o3 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)Not measured41.4%Only Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index33
Reasoning benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
GPQA Diamond75.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)77.3%70.7%o3 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)12.0%10.3%o3 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)77.0%55.6%o3 Mini
ARC-AGI34.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-23.0%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
SimpleBench22.8%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Chess puzzles15.0%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles7.0%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13651398Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: expert13641397Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13751406Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
Math benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
AIME86.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)91.8%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)91.3%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
AA Math IndexNot measured66.3Only Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured66.3%Only Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 measured
OTIS Mock AIME76.9%62.2%o3 Mini
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 318.6%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tier 40.0%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
MATH level 596.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13961394o3 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work13991411Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Knowledge benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
MMLU Pro78.7%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)71.5%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)45.3%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)69.4%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)94.8%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)80.2%80.5%Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
SimpleQA Verified15.3%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13391393Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13301392Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: legal and government13281387Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: business and finance13131389Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
Neither model has a result on 9 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index219
General benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
IFBench67.1%50.7%o3 Mini
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)43.0%61.3%Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
DTBench68.8%67.2%o3 Mini
LMCA19.0%22.4%Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Fiction.LiveBench50.0%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)61.7%Not measuredOnly o3 Mini measured
LMArena Text13371384Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: instruction following13371363Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: creative writing12861317Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: English13511391Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: non-English13191372Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Chinese13791432Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: German13031379Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Japanese12861337Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Korean13131330Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: French13341419Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Spanish13211404Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Russian13041369Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: Polish12941353Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: multi-turn13201378Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: longer queries13431378Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: writing and language13131336Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
LMArena Text: entertainment and media12831334Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

o3 Mini$0.0033Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.0002Fits in one request

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

o3 Mini$0.068Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.0054Fits in one request

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

o3 Mini$0.264Exceeds the context window
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.021Fits in one request

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of o3 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
SpecificationOpenAI o3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedJanuary 31, 2025July 29, 2025
Context window200K262K
Input $/Mtok$1.10$0.09
Output $/Mtok$4.40$0.30
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved taskNot computableNot computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is o3 Mini better than Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick o3 Mini for work measured by LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

o3 Mini costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs $0.09 and $0.30. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.

Which has the bigger context window, o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks is the o3 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 comparison based on?

42 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. o3 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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