Is Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 a good deal?
Whether anything in this catalogue beats Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.
13 undominated of 136 · Sep 23, 2026
As of Sep 23, 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is on the value frontier for Balanced on LMArena. Nothing in this catalogue is both higher-scoring and cheaper with a covering envelope. 13 of 136 rated, priced standard models are undominated.
Nothing in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, with a capability envelope that covers Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507.
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 takes text, returns up to 32,000 tokens from a 262,144-token context, and is listed by 5 sellers.
Compared against 136 rated, priced models on this lens, nothing dominates it: no model is at least as good on both quality and price and better on one. Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 scores 1383.6 at $0.08 per million tokens for this mix.
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