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Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507vsQwen3.5 9B
Qwen3.5 9B leads 6 of 7 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 262K-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 6
Qwen3.5 9B leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 262K tokens
Providers
Qwen
same provider
Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507
Qwen · released 2025-07-30
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Qwen3.5 9B
Qwen · released 2026-03-02
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- Context
- 262K
- Max out
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- Output /1M
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- Cached /1M
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- Scores
- 18 · 5 core
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 12 only Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 · 10 only Qwen3.5 9B| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 | Qwen3.5 9B | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 55.6% ↗epoch run | 81.7% ↗ | -26.1 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% ↗ | 82.5% ↗ | -4.1 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 2% ↗epoch run | 12% ↗epoch run | -10 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| IFEval | 84.7% ↗ | 91.5% ↗ | -6.8 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| MMLU-Redux | 89.3% ↗ | 91.1% ↗ | -1.8 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 62.2% ↗epoch run | 61.7% ↗epoch run | +0.5 pt | Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 |
| SuperGPQA | 53.4% ↗ | 58.2% ↗ | -4.8 pt | Qwen3.5 9B |
| Only Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 reports · 12 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1382.7 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Aider-Polyglot | 35.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AIME25 | 61.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Arena-Hard v2 | 69% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BFCL-v3 | 65.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA | 70.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HMMT25 | 43% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 69% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05) | 43.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MultiPL-E | 83.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Retail | 57% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ZebraLogic | 90% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3.5 9B reports · 10 | ||||
| BFCL-V4 | not reported | 66.1% ↗ | — | — |
| HMMT Feb 25 | not reported | 83.2% ↗ | — | — |
| IFBench | not reported | 64.5% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | not reported | 65.6% ↗ | — | — |
| LongBench v2 | not reported | 55.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMLU | not reported | 81.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU | not reported | 78.4% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | not reported | 70.1% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 41.8% ↗ | — | — |
| TAU2-Bench | not reported | 79.1% ↗ | — | — |
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 Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 minus Qwen3.5 9B 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
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507 | Qwen3.5 9B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K tokens | 262K tokens | Tie |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | — | — |
| Output price / 1M | $0.8 ↗ | — | — |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $1 | — | — |
| Modalities | text | text · vision · video | Qwen3.5 9B |
| Released | 2025-07-30 | 2026-03-02 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 18 | — |
Reliability
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