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Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 vs Claude Opus 4.1

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Winner summary

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

Hype vs Reality
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
#68 by perf·no signal
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Claude Opus 4.1
#137 by perf·no signal
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Best value
309.0x better value than Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
283.6 pts/$
$0.20/M
Claude Opus 4.1
0.9 pts/$
$45.00/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507$0.09$0.30262K tokens (~131 books)$1.43
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.1$15.00$75.00200K tokens (~100 books)$300.00