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Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507vsQwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct
Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct split their 8 shared benchmarks evenly. Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct is 1.3x cheaper per token. Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 has the larger context window (262K tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
4 – 4
even split
Cheaper per token
Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct
1.3x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507
262K tokens
Providers
Qwen
same provider
Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507
Qwen · released 2025-07-31
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Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct
Qwen · released 2025-09-23
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Quality
Benchmark matrix
8 shared · 10 only Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 · 9 only Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct| Benchmark | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 8 | ||||
| MMLU-Pro | 80.9% ↗ | 81.8% ↗ | -0.9 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| AIME25 | 85% ↗ | 74.7% ↗ | +10.3 pt | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| Arena-Hard v2 | 56% ↗ | 77.4% ↗ | -21.4 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| BFCL-v3 | 72.4% ↗ | 67.7% ↗ | +4.7 pt | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| HMMT25 | 71.4% ↗ | 57.4% ↗ | +14 pt | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| IFEval | 88.9% ↗ | 87.8% ↗ | +1.1 pt | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| MMLU-Redux | 91.4% ↗ | 92.2% ↗ | -0.8 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| SuperGPQA | 56.8% ↗ | 60.4% ↗ | -3.6 pt | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| Only Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 reports · 10 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 70.1% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA | 73.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench 20241125 | 76.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench v6 (25.02-25.05) | 66% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OJBench | 25.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 70.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Airline | 58% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Retail | 58.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| TAU2-Telecom | 26.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct reports · 9 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1413.4 ↗ | — | — |
| LCBV6 (25.02-25.05) | not reported | 54.3% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | not reported | 1215.1 ↗ | — | — |
| MathVista (mini) | not reported | 84.9% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU (val) | not reported | 78.7% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU_Pro | not reported | 68.1% ↗ | — | — |
| ScreenSpot Pro | not reported | 62% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA | not reported | 51.9% ↗ | — | — |
| VideoMME (w/o sub) | not reported | 79.2% ↗ | — | — |
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 Thinking 2507 minus Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B 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
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K tokens | 256K tokens | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| Max output | — | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking 2507 |
| Output price / 1M | $2.4 ↗ | $1.6 ↗ | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $2.6 | $2 | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| Modalities | text | text · vision · video | Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Instruct |
| Released | 2025-07-31 | 2025-09-23 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 18 | 17 | — |
Reliability
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