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gpt-oss-120b vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins on 1/1 benchmarks
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.
Category leads
arena·Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
gpt-oss-120b
#137 by perf·no signal
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
#84 by perf·no signal
Best value
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
1.1x better value than gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b
434.3 pts/$
$0.11/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
458.5 pts/$
$0.12/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
1 benchmark · 2 models
gpt-oss-120bQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 leads by +30.6
gpt-oss-120b
1352.7
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
1383.3
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 |
|---|---|---|
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall | 1352.7 | 1383.3 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.04 | $0.18 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $0.72 | |
| $0.05 | $0.19 | 131K tokens (~66 books) | $0.84 |