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GPT-4.1 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-4.1 · Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-4.1
#152 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
#84 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
52.9x better value than GPT-4.1
GPT-4.1
8.7 pts/$
$5.00/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
458.5 pts/$
$0.12/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-4.1$2.00$8.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$35.00
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.05$0.19131K tokens (~66 books)$0.84