Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3-30B-A3B vs QwQ-32B

Qwen3-30B-A3B and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 31.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 40.6% for Qwen3-30B-A3B and 83.3% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Qwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index38.939.8
Released2025-04-282024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window41K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.12—
Output $ / M tokens$0.50—
Results tracked3236

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14161333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
SciCode33.3%—
WeirdML29.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard41.4%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles8%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13981325
Epoch Capabilities Index139.63137.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark54.9%—
CritPt0.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
DTBench69.3%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA22.4%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Too close to call

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202570.3%59.2%
LMArena Math13941359
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions47.8%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond70.1%65.3%
Confabulations12.3%15.6%
LMArena Expert13961324

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English13721305
LMArena Chinese14331378
LMArena French14181336
LMArena German13801313
LMArena Japanese13371262
LMArena Korean13311279
LMArena Russian13701297
LMArena Spanish14041354

Instruction Following Too close to call

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13631297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench40.6%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query13791308

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkQwen3-30B-A3BQwQ-32B
LMArena Text13841329
LMArena Creative Writing13171288
Short-Story Creative Writing75.3%80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn13781314
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3-30B-A3B better than QwQ-32B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.9 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Qwen3-30B-A3B or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3-30B-A3B and QwQ-32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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