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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 5.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #33 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.5

Rank #174 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 21.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 40% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 8% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 41K.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderGoogleAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index52.338.5
Released2025-12-172025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M41K
Max output66K16K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.50
Results tracked5932

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.5 (#35), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML61.6%29.8%
LMArena Coding14601416
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—33.3%
GSO9.8%—
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.6 (#27), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#35), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
Chess Puzzles40%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651398
DTBench89.1%69.3%
LMCA43.1%22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.83139.63
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
ForecastBench58.5—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.4 (#42), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%47.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%70.3%
LMArena Math14721394
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench15%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#30), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond89.4%70.1%
LMArena Expert14611395
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Confabulations—12.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.3 (#15), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1285—
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.9 (#26), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14581372
LMArena Chinese15101434
LMArena French14781419
LMArena German14971379
LMArena Japanese14881338
LMArena Korean14431333
LMArena Russian14801369
LMArena Spanish14701403

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.8 (#52), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14371364

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#63), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14521379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.6 (#44), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14661384
LMArena Creative Writing14571318
LMArena Multi-Turn14711378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 38.5 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-30B-A3B costs 5.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.5 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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