Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview, both from Qwen, context windows of 131K vs 262K, tested across 49 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 7.8x 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
5.2× cheaper
Output
$0.80
7.8× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Input
$1.04
Output
$6.24
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 5.2× input, 7.8× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
78%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 6.5x more transitions
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
55%Vocabulary62%
18wSentence Length21w
0.52Hedging0.22
6.7Bold3.8
4.3Lists2.9
1.04Emoji1.88
0.92Headings0.62
0.11Transitions0.02
Based on 22 + 26 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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