Is Qwen3-30B-A3B or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct cheaper?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper on output tokens ($0.50 vs $2.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-30B-A3B or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct?

Qwen3-30B-A3B has the larger context window (41K tokens).

Qwen3-30B-A3B vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

Qwen3-30B-A3B is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3-30B-A3B offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-30B-A3B or GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-30B-A3B	GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Provider	Vercel AI Gateway	Vercel AI Gateway
Input / 1M tokens	$0.12	$1.50
Output / 1M tokens	$0.50	$2.00
Context window	41K	8K
Parameters	—	20B
Open weights	No	No
Released	Apr 2025	Sep 2023

Qwen3-30B-A3B details →GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct details →

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