Is Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B cheaper?

Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($1.00 vs $2.34 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B-A17B has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct vs Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3.5 397B-A17B offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct or Qwen3.5 397B-A17B based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct	Qwen3.5 397B-A17B
Provider	SiliconFlow	SiliconFlow
Input / 1M tokens	$0.29	$0.39
Output / 1M tokens	$1.00	$2.34
Context window	262K	262K
Parameters	—	397B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Oct 2025	Feb 2026

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