Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B, both from Qwen, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Input
$0.07
8.5× cheaper
Output
$0.28
13× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
Output
$3.60
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 is cheaper on both — 8.5× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
57%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 3.1x more hedging
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
54%Vocabulary54%
14wSentence Length14w
0.12Hedging0.39
7.5Bold6.9
4.2Lists4.2
0.68Emoji0.23
0.93Headings0.93
0.12Transitions0.17
Based on 16 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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