Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B, both from Qwen, context windows of 131K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 4.5x 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
3.0× cheaper
Output
$0.80
4.5× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
Output
$3.60
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 4.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
54%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 4.5x more emoji
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
55%Vocabulary54%
18wSentence Length14w
0.52Hedging0.39
6.7Bold6.9
4.3Lists4.2
1.04Emoji0.23
0.92Headings0.93
0.11Transitions0.17
Based on 22 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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