// COMPARISON

Qwen3-30B-A3B vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of Qwen3-30B-A3B vs Qwen3-235B-A22B across 27 evaluations. Qwen3-235B-A22B leads on the most benchmarks (22).

The models

Language Open (Restricted)
Params
30B
Context
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Released
Apr 2025

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, ac.

Full Qwen3-30B-A3B specs β†’
Leads 22
Language Open (Restricted)
Params
235B
Context
β€”
Released
Apr 2025

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, ac.

Full Qwen3-235B-A22B specs β†’

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark Qwen3-30B-A3B Qwen3-235B-A22B
code
Codeforces Elo 1,974 2,056
LiveCodeBench v5 62.6% 70.7%
SciCode 28.5% β€”
general
AlignBench v1.1 8.7 8.94
ArenaHard 91% 96.1%
C-Eval 86.6% 89.6%
Creative Writing v3 79.1 84.6
IFEval 86.5% 83.4%
LiveBench 74.3 77.1
MMLU-Redux 89.5% 92.7%
MMMLU 78.4% 84.3%
Multi-IF 72.2 71.9
WritingBench 7.7 8.03
knowledge
INCLUDE 71.9 78.7
math
AIME 2024 80.4% 86.68%
AIME 2025 70.9% 81.5%
HMMT February 2025 23.54% 61.88%
MATH-500 98% 98%
MT-AIME 2024 73.9 80.8
Omni-MATH-HARD 23.87% 56.91%
PolyMath-en 46.1 54.7
reasoning
AutoLogi 88.7 89
GPQA Diamond 65.8% 71.1%
Humanity's Last Exam 6.14% 14.23%
MLogiQA 70.1 77.1
ZebraLogic 89.5% 80.3%
tool-use
BFCL v3 69.1% 70.8%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

Frequently asked questions

Which model is best, Qwen3-30B-A3B vs Qwen3-235B-A22B? β–Ά

Across the 27 benchmarks compared here, Qwen3-235B-A22B leads on the most (22). The right choice still depends on your task β€” check the per-benchmark table above for coding, reasoning and math.

Which of these models is best for coding? β–Ά

Qwen3-235B-A22B has the strongest result on Codeforces Elo among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared? β–Ά

This comparison covers 27 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

Where do the benchmark scores come from? β–Ά

Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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