# o1-mini vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

> Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen3-30b-a3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 23

## 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 21.6 to 8.9.
- 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.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.7 | 38.5 |
| Rank | 230 | 174 |
| Context | — | 41K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.12 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 36.3% | 29.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1416 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41.4% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

- o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1398 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 139.63 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| DTBench | — | 69.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

- o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | 70.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1394 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 70.1% |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1395 |

## Multilingual

- o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1434 |
| LMArena French | 1292 | 1419 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1379 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1338 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1333 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1369 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1302 | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1364 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

- o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1321 | 1379 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1318 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | 75.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1378 |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

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

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 35.1 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.