Qwen3-30B-A3B vs GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
40,960
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$2.50
Output / 1M
$10.00
AA index
8.4
proprietary · 128K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-30B-A3B | GPT-4o (2024-11-20) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 40,960 | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 1,010,878 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 22.5 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 | 2025-04-27 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.12 | $2.50 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.50 | $10.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.62 | $12.50 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.6 | 8.4 |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 16,384 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-30B-A3B
$0.62
GPT-4o (2024-11-20)
$12.50
Qwen3-30B-A3B is 20.2× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-30B-A3B · fp16
72.3 GB / 24 GB