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DeepSeek V3.1-TerminusvsQwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct

DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct
262K tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · Qwen
DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus
DeepSeek · released 2025-09-22
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Context
128K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
12 · 5 core
Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct
Qwen · released 2025-07-31
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Context
262K
Max out
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Input /1M
$0.45 ↗
Output /1M
$2.25 ↗
Cached /1M
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Scores
13 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.1-TerminusQwen3-Coder 30B-A3B InstructΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
Aider-Polyglot76.1% ↗33.3% ↗+42.8 ptDeepSeek V3.1-Terminus
SWE-bench Multilingual57.8% ↗34.7% ↗+23.1 ptDeepSeek V3.1-Terminus
Only DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus reports · 10
MMLU-Pro85% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)21.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Elo1417.2 ↗not reported——
BrowseComp38.5% ↗not reported——
BrowseComp-zh45% ↗not reported——
GPQA-Diamond80.7% ↗not reported——
LiveCodeBench74.9% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA (agentic tool use)96.8% ↗not reported——
SWE Verified68.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal-bench36.7% ↗not reported——
Only Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct reports · 11
BFCL-v3not reported62.2% ↗——
Mind2Webnot reported51% ↗——
Multi-SWE-bench flashnot reported19.3% ↗——
Multi-SWE-bench mininot reported19.5% ↗——
Spider2not reported21.4% ↗——
SWE-bench Livenot reported20.7% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (w/ OpenHands, 500 turns)not reported51.6% ↗——
TAU-Bench Airlinenot reported48% ↗——
TAU-Bench Retailnot reported68.7% ↗——
Terminal-Benchnot reported31.3% ↗——
WebArenanot reported43.5% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus minus Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

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SpecDeepSeek V3.1-TerminusQwen3-Coder 30B-A3B InstructEdge
Context window128K tokens262K tokensQwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct
Max output———
Input price / 1M—$0.45 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$2.25 ↗—
Cached input / 1M———
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$2.7—
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2025-09-222025-07-31—
Cited benchmark scores1213—
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