GPT-5.2 vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare GPT-5.2 by OpenAI against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 400K vs 131K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5.2
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5.2 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 18x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
GPT-5.2
Input
$1.75
Output
$14.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
8.8× cheaper
Output
$0.80
18× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 8.8× input, 18× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 17.8x more emoji
GPT-5.2
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
64%Vocabulary55%
16wSentence Length18w
0.34Hedging0.52
9.4Bold6.7
3.9Lists4.3
0.06Emoji1.04
0.89Headings0.92
0.31Transitions0.11
Based on 15 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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