Qwen3 30B A3B vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads Qwen3 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 9.6 to 7.6, at about the same output price ($0.44 vs $0.50 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 14 benchmarks have a result for both.
Qwen3 30B A3B or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for work measured by Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 14
- Qwen3 30B A3B only
- 38
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads, 9.6 against 7.6.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads, 1087 against 955.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct takes 262K tokens against 41K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 30B A3B $0.0004, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Qwen3 30B A3B not benchmarked, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 43.3 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run): Qwen3 30B A3B 72.3% against Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 29.0%, 43.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Qwen3 30B A3B $0.50 against Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct $0.44 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Qwen3 30B A3B takes 41K tokens, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 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.
| Category | Qwen3 30B A3B | Bars | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 3 | ||
| General | 1 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 7 | 7 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index11
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 60.4% | Only Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | Not measured | 49.7% | Only Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 50.6% | 40.3% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | 15.2% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| WeirdML | 29.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1337 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1340 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.6 | 9.6 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 137.3 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 26.0% | 34.5% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 61.6% | 51.6% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.2% | 3.8% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 61.7% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1314 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1314 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1329 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 72.3 | 29.0 | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 72.3% | 29.0% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 62.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1355 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1363 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.7% | 70.6% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| LMArena Text: science | 1321 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1318 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1314 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1309 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 955 | 1087 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Design Arena: UI components | 946 | 1046 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Design Arena: game dev | 899 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 967 | 1085 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 942 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 41.5% | 32.7% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 0.0% | 32.7% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| DTBench | 60.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMCA | 15.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 40.6% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 75.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text | 1317 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1283 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1271 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1335 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1295 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1347 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1307 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1254 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1261 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1352 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1317 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1291 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1299 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1307 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1312 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1290 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1258 | Not measured | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| 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
| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 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.
| Specification | Qwen3 30B A3B | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 28, 2025 | July 31, 2025 |
| Context window | 41K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.12 | $0.11 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.44 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Qwen3 30B A3B better than Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for work measured by Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3 30B A3B or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.11 and $0.44. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3 30B A3B or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, with 262K tokens against 41K.
How many benchmarks is the Qwen3 30B A3B vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct comparison based on?
14 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Qwen3 30B A3B's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.