Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Claude Opus 4 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
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4 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.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4
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
49%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 9.3x more emoji
Claude Opus 4
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
64%Vocabulary55%
62wSentence Length18w
0.52Hedging0.52
4.4Bold6.7
9.1Lists4.3
0.11Emoji1.04
1.87Headings0.92
0.27Transitions0.11
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