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o3 Mini 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 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Hype vs Reality
o3 Mini
#197 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
#84 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
35.8x better value than o3 Mini
o3 Mini
12.8 pts/$
$2.75/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
458.5 pts/$
$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
Head to head
o3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 leads by +35.7
o3 Mini
1347.7
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
1383.3
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3 MiniQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1347.71383.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3 Mini$1.10$4.40200K tokens (~100 books)$19.25
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.05$0.19131K tokens (~66 books)$0.84