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GPT-5 vs Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5 · Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
GPT-5
#100 by perf·#4 by attention
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
#77 by perf·#2 by attention
Best value
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
48.8x better value than GPT-5
GPT-5
9.4 pts/$
$5.63/M
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
458.5 pts/$
$0.12/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $34.38 | |
| $0.05 | $0.19 | 262K tokens (~131 books) | $0.84 |