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Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct (Qwen) and Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 17 August 2026

As of 17 August 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#93 vs #95); Qwen3 30B A3B offers the longer context window (131K vs 33K tokens); and Qwen3 30B A3B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct leads Qwen3 30B A3B for this pair.

Choose Qwen3 30B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #93 against #95 (24.6 vs 23.7 points).
  • you need the longer context window — 131K tokens against 33K.
  • you want to self-host: Qwen3 30B A3B ships open weights while Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct is restricted license.
  • you want provider choice — 2 listed API providers against 0.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Qwen3 30B A3B was listed 28 April 2025, Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 6 November 2024.

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B
FieldQwen2.5 Coder 3B InstructQwenQwen3 30B A3BQwen
ModelCap Index position#95#93
Index score23.724.6
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.13
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.52
Context window33K tokens131K tokens
Max output tokens—8K
API providers listed02
Weight accessRestricted licenseOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed6 November 202428 April 2025
PublisherQwenQwen

Evidence: publisher corpus prior · leave-one-anchor-out calibrated · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B

Public benchmark boards where Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct or Qwen3 30B A3B has a published result
BoardQwen2.5 Coder 3B InstructQwen3 30B A3BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)—13861377–1395Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B: common questions

Is Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct better than Qwen3 30B A3B?

Qwen3 30B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #93 against #95. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.

Is Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct cheaper than Qwen3 30B A3B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct or Qwen3 30B A3B?

Qwen3 30B A3B has the larger context window: 131K tokens against 33K.

Which is better for coding, Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct or Qwen3 30B A3B?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B open-weight models?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct: Restricted license. Qwen3 30B A3B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct and 2 for Qwen3 30B A3B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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