Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct vs. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Comparison between Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.
For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.
| Intelligence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | 8* | 10* | |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7% | 4% | |
| CritPt | 0% | 0% | |
| AA-Omniscience | −63 | −51 | |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 33% | ||
| Cost | |||
| Price per 1M Tokens | $0.208 | $0.63 | |
| Input Price per 1M Tokens | $0.16 | $0.45 | |
| Output Price per 1M Tokens | $0.64 | $2.25 | |
| Token Use | |||
| Performance | |||
| Output Speed | 66 tokens/s | 85 tokens/s | |
| Time to First Token | 2.68s | 2.62s | |
| Time to First Answer Token | 2.68s | 2.62s | |
| End-to-End Response Time | 10.28s | 8.48s | |
| Technical specifications | |||
| Context Window | 256k tokens~384 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | 262k tokens~393 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font | |
| Release Date | October 2025 | July 2025 | |
| Total parameters | 33.4B | 30.5B | |
| Active parameters | 3.3B | ||
| Reasoning | No | No | |
| Input modality | Supports: text and image | Supports: text | |
| Output modality | Supports: text | Supports: text | |
| Open Source (Weights) | |||
| License | |||
| License Supports Commercial Use Without Restrictions | Yes | Yes | |
* Estimated
Highlights
IntelligenceUpdated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic coding & terminal use
Coding
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Physics reasoning
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Long context reasoning
Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate
Agentic business operations
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Instruction following
Agentic tool use
Long-horizon agentic tasks
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Visual reasoning
AA-Omniscience
AA-Omniscience Index
Openness Index
Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score
Intelligence Index Comparisons
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Context Window
Context Window
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Model Size (Open Weights Models Only)
Model Size: Total and Active Parameters
Frequently Asked Questions
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is more intelligent. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct scores 10 (estimated), compared with Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct at 8 (estimated) on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is faster. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct generates 85.3 tokens per second, compared with Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct at 65.8 tokens per second.
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct is cheaper. Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct costs $0.21 per 1M tokens, compared with Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at $0.63 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct has lower latency. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct has a time to first token of 2.62s, compared with Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct at 2.68s.
Both models have a context window of 260k tokens.