GPT-3.5 Turbo vs Qwen3 30B A3B
Compare GPT-3.5 Turbo by OpenAI against Qwen3 30B A3B by Qwen, in 5 community votes, qwen3 30b a3b wins 60% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 16K vs 41K, tested across 54 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, GPT-3.5 Turbo or Qwen3 30B A3B?
Qwen3 30B A3B is the better choice overall, winning 60% of 5 blind community votes on Rival. GPT-3.5 Turbo costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0/M for Qwen3 30B A3B. Context windows: 16K vs 41K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between GPT-3.5 Turbo and Qwen3 30B A3B
GPT-3.5 Turbo is made by openai while Qwen3 30B A3B is from qwen. GPT-3.5 Turbo has a 16K token context window compared to Qwen3 30B A3B's 41K. On pricing, GPT-3.5 Turbo costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0/M for Qwen3 30B A3B. In community voting, In 5 community votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 60% of head-to-head duels.
In 5 community votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 60% of head-to-head duels. GPT-3.5 Turbo leads in Web Design, while Qwen3 30B A3B leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 5+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Qwen3 30B A3B. In 5 blind votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 60% of the time. That's not luck.
Pick GPT-3.5 Turbo for Web Design. Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for Image Generation.
Style Comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B uses 755.6x more bold
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