Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B
Compare Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct by Moonshot AI against Qwen3 30B A3B by Qwen, in 13 community votes, qwen3 30b a3b wins 67% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 41K, tested across 35 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct or Qwen3 30B A3B?
Qwen3 30B A3B is the better choice overall, winning 67% of 13 blind community votes on Rival. Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct costs $0.3/M input tokens vs $0/M for Qwen3 30B A3B. Context windows: 1049K vs 41K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B
Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct is made by moonshotai while Qwen3 30B A3B is from qwen. Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct has a 1049K token context window compared to Qwen3 30B A3B's 41K. On pricing, Kimi Linear 48B A3B Instruct costs $0.3/M input tokens vs $0/M for Qwen3 30B A3B. In community voting, In 13 community votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 67% of head-to-head duels.
In 13 community votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 67% of head-to-head duels. Qwen3 30B A3B leads in Image Generation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 13+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Qwen3 30B A3B. In 13 blind votes, Qwen3 30B A3B wins 67% of the time. That's not luck.
Qwen3 30B A3B particularly excels in Image Generation.
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Qwen3 30B A3B uses 36.1x more emoji
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