Model comparison
Nova Premier 1.0 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B
Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Nova Premier 1.0 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 41.8 to 35.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0 and 54.9% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper at $0.12 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 41K.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.3 | 38.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-30 | 2025-04-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 41K |
| Max output | 10K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $12.50 | $0.50 |
| Results tracked | 6 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 29.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1416 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 44.8% | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1398 |
| DTBench | — | 69.3% |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.63 |
Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 70.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 35% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1394 |
Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 70.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.6% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 12.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 51.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1396 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1433 |
| LMArena French | — | 1418 |
| LMArena German | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1404 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 80.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1363 |
Long Context Not comparable
Nova Premier 1.0: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1379 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)
| Benchmark | Nova Premier 1.0 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1317 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.3% |
| WildBench | 78.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1378 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Nova Premier 1.0 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?
Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.3 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Nova Premier 1.0 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; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 41K.
How many benchmarks do Nova Premier 1.0 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Nova Premier 1.0 has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.