Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or GLM-5.1 cheaper?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.86 vs $3.48 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or GLM-5.1?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct vs GLM-5.1

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or GLM-5.1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct	GLM-5.1
Provider	Alibaba (China)	Alibaba (China)
Input / 1M tokens	$0.22	$0.87
Output / 1M tokens	$0.86	$3.48
Context window	262K	203K
Parameters	—	754B
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Released	Apr 2025	Apr 2026

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct details →GLM-5.1 details →

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