Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 vs Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 and Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking, both from Qwen, context windows of 131K vs 262K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
6.0× cheaper
Output
$0.80
7.5× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 6.0× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
69%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 3.2x more transitions
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
55%Vocabulary61%
18wSentence Length15w
0.52Hedging0.23
6.7Bold5.2
4.3Lists3.9
1.04Emoji1.37
0.92Headings1.22
0.11Transitions0.04
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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