Noometry

Model comparison

o1-mini vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 22.2 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.038.9
Released2024-09-122025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked3932

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML36.3%29.8%
LMArena Coding13621416
Aider Polyglot32.9%—
SciCode—33.3%
LiveBench Coding48%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
Cybench10%—

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331398
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82139.63
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench18.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
ARC-AGI-114%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%—
DTBench—69.3%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA—22.4%
LiveBench57.8%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%70.3%
LMArena Math13581394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
LiveBench Math62%—
MATH Level 589.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond62.4%70.1%
Confabulations18.6%12.3%
LMArena Expert13161396

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12891372
LMArena Chinese13141433
LMArena French12931418
LMArena German12781380
LMArena Japanese12451337
LMArena Korean12231331
LMArena Russian12831370
LMArena Spanish13031404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13041363
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%—

Long Context o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13201379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text13171384
LMArena Creative Writing12441317
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%75.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn13141378
LiveBench Language40.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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