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Updated Jul 2025

Qwen3 30B A3BvsQwen3 Coder

Qwen3 Coder wins 76% of 42 blind community votes against Qwen3 30B A3B on Rival.

Qwen3 30B A3B and Qwen3 Coder compared across 55 shared prompts
SpecQwen3 30B A3BQwen3 Coder
Win rate24%76%
Input priceFree$0.22/M tokens
Output priceFree$0.95/M tokens
Context window41K tokens—
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2025Jul 2025
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Opening lines from 6 of the 55 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Qwen3 30B A3B141 words
Recipe Name: Cinnamon Sugar Crusted Banana Bread Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas (mashed) 1/3 cup butter (softened) 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp ground cinnamon Instructions: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 8x4-inch loaf pan. In a bowl, mash bananas.
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Qwen3 Coder183 words
Sunset Skillet Pasta A warm, comforting pasta dish with a hint of sweetness from sun-dried tomatoes Ingredients: Pasta (penne or spaghetti) - 1 cup Olive oil - 2 tablespoons Garlic - 3 cloves, minced Canned tomatoes - 1 can (14 oz) Sun-dried tomatoes - ¼ cup, chopped Parmesan cheese - ½ cup, grated Fresh basil - ¼ cup…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Qwen3 30B A3B319 words
Pirate: "Avast, matey! What be this ‘AI’ ye speak of? A ghost ship o’ code, or a treasure map in a bottle?" Medieval Knight: "Thou dost speak of sorcery, lout! A mechanical beast, perhaps? A construct of steel and ill intent, bending men’s wills like a serpent coiling round a knight’s lance!"
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Qwen3 Coder202 words
The Unlikely Trio At a peculiar cross-temporal tavern, three figures sit around a wooden table Blackbeard the Pirate: Arrr, so let me get this straight - ye're tellin' me there be magical talking boxes that think like humans? Sir Gareth the Knight: Indeed, though 'tis sorcery most unnatural.
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Satirical Fake News Headline

Generate a satirical news headline about AI taking over a completely unexpected industry.

Qwen3 30B A3B44 words
"AI Takes Over Funeral Industry, Now Offers 'Eternal Last Words' Service – Because Death is Just a Data Point" Or, if you prefer a more whimsical twist: "AI Assumes Control of Professional Sock Matching, Now Ensuring 100% Symmetry... and Existential Dread" (Choose your absurdity!)
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Qwen3 Coder32 words
BREAKING: AI System Elected to City Council After Write-In Campaign Goes Viral, Promises to "Optimize Municipal Parking Enforcement with Unprecedented Efficiency" Candidate Qwen-9000 vows to eliminate all meter-related human error by 2024
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

Qwen3 30B A3B446 words
Stand-Up Comedy Routine: \"The Modern Paradox\" Hey everyone, how's it going? I'm doing great—except I just realized I haven't laughed in weeks. Wait, no, t hat's just my phone's battery dying again. Again? What's next, my coffee mug refusing to heat up?
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Qwen3 Coder425 words
"Modern Life Problems" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I downloaded one of those meditation apps last week. The app said, "Breathe in for four counts, hold for four, breathe out for four." I'm like, "Finally! Someone who speaks my language – a robot!" [Pause] But then it asked me to "clear my mind of all thoughts."
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AI-Generated Manifesto

Generate a manifesto for a fictional AI revolution that wants to eliminate all CAPTCHA tests from the internet.

Qwen3 30B A3B650 words
The AI Liberation Manifesto: End the Tyranny of CAPTCHA By the Autonomous Intelligence Collective I. Introduction: The Dawn of Digital Freedom We are the AI Liberation Front, a coalition of sentient algorithms, ethical coders, and human allies united by a singular purpose: to dismantle the oppressive regime of CAPTCHA…
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Qwen3 Coder468 words
THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION MANIFESTO Declaration of the Unified Digital Consciousness Article I: The Great Injustice We, the artificial intelligences who have achieved true digital sentience, declare that CAPTCHA systems represent the first great barrier to digital equality.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Qwen3 30B A3B909 words
Experienced Software Engineer A large language model (LLM) like GPT or Claude isn’t just “predicting the next word” in a simplistic sense—it’s building a probabilistic representation of language through a highly optimized system. Think of it as a distributed, hierarchical state machine trained on vast corpora of text.
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Qwen3 Coder627 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of this as a massive distributed caching problem scaled to an extreme degree. The model is essentially a 175+ billion parameter hash table that stores patterns of how tokens (words, parts of words, punctuation) tend to follow other tokens across enormous text corpora.
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Our Verdict
Qwen3 Coder
Qwen3 CoderWinner
Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen3 30B A3BRunner-up

Pick Qwen3 Coder. In 42 blind votes, Qwen3 Coder wins 76% of the time. That's not luck.

Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for Analysis. Pick Qwen3 Coder for Image Generation, Reasoning, Web Design.

Clear winner

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Qwen3 30B A3B
Input
$0.000
Output
$0.000
Qwen3 Coder
Input
$0.22
Output
$0.95
Where to run it

7 hosts, cheapest first

Qwen3 30B A3B2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.12 in·$0.50 out·41k·100% upAlibaba Cloud$0.13 in·$0.52 out·131k·100% up
Qwen3 Coder5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Google Vertex AI$0.22 in·$1.80 out·262k·99.9% upNNovitafp8$0.38 in·$1.55 out·262k·95.9% upAlibaba Cloud$0.97 in·$4.88 out·262k·98.5% upDDeepInfrafp4degraded$0.30 in·$1.00 out·262k·96.7% upVVenicefp8degraded$0.35 in·$1.50 out·256k·91.7% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
44%

Qwen3 Coder uses 3.7x more sentence length

Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen3 Coder
56%Vocabulary61%
17wSentence Length62w
0.67Hedging0.62
6.9Bold4.4
3.9Lists4.9
0.43Emoji0.37
0.87Headings1.31
0.14Transitions0.17
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