Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 131K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.1 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 94x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
75× cheaper
Output
$0.80
94× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 75× input, 94× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
45%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 4.8x more sentence length
Claude Opus 4.1
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
61%Vocabulary55%
87wSentence Length18w
0.54Hedging0.52
5.1Bold6.7
6.7Lists4.3
0.38Emoji1.04
1.68Headings0.92
0.13Transitions0.11
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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