Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 vs GPT-4o (2024-05-13)

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
AA index
7.3
proprietary · 128K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 30.5 B n/a — API-only
Architecture Qwen3MoeForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 262,144 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 1,073,700 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 18.3 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2025-07-28 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.09 $5.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.30 $15.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.39 $20.00
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index 7.5 7.3
AA Coding Index — 24.2
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 235,929 4,096
API providers 3 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 $0.39
GPT-4o (2024-05-13) $20.00

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is 51.3× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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