Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or QwQ 32B cheaper?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct and QwQ 32B have comparable output pricing.

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or QwQ 32B?

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

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct vs QwQ 32B

Both have similar output pricing, while Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or QwQ 32B based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct	QwQ 32B
Provider	Alibaba (China)	Alibaba (China)
Input / 1M tokens	$0.22	$0.29
Output / 1M tokens	$0.86	$0.86
Context window	262K	131K
Parameters	—	33B
Open weights	Yes	Yes
Released	Apr 2025	Dec 2024

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct details →QwQ 32B details →

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