Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Claude Sonnet 4 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, in 4 community votes, claude sonnet 4 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Image Generation: Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4Winner
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4. In 4 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Sonnet 4 particularly excels in Image Generation. Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 19x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
15× cheaper
Output
$0.80
19× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 15× input, 19× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Claude Sonnet 4 uses 6.1x more sentence length
Claude Sonnet 4
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
62%Vocabulary55%
111wSentence Length18w
0.40Hedging0.52
5.0Bold6.7
9.3Lists4.3
0.88Emoji1.04
2.16Headings0.92
0.33Transitions0.11
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