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Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo

Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct (Qwen) and GLM 5 Turbo (Z.ai) 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 23 September 2026

As of 23 September 2026, GLM 5 Turbo holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#97 vs #100).

Which should you choose?

Choose Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct if…

  • ModelCap publishes no field on which Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct leads GLM 5 Turbo for this pair.

Choose GLM 5 Turbo if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #97 against #100 (54.8 vs 54.3 points).
  • you want provider choice — 1 listed API providers against 0.
  • AA τ²-Bench Telecom is your yardstick — 98.5% against 16.4%.
  • AA Humanity's Last Exam is your yardstick — 27.8% against 4.6%.
  • you want the more recently listed model — GLM 5 Turbo was listed 15 March 2026, Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct 20 September 2025.

Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct and GLM 5 Turbo
FieldQwen3 Omni 30B A3B InstructQwenGLM 5 TurboZ.ai
ModelCap Index position#100#97
Index score54.354.8
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$1.20
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$4.00
Context window— tokens203K tokens
Max output tokens—131K
API providers listed01
Weight accessRestricted licenseAPI only
Input modalitiesText, Image, AudioText
First listed20 September 202515 March 2026
PublisherQwenZ.ai

Evidence: publisher-corpus-prior over 215 held-out anchors (10%); launch card against 4 resolved peers on 4 rows (90%); exceeds every named peer on 1 of 4 rows; no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 0.2 up toward the measured corpus · publisher-corpus-prior over 215 held-out anchors (63%); 1 specialist-board observation at 1.2% support (37%); shrunk 24.9 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo

Public benchmark boards where Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct or GLM 5 Turbo has a published result
BoardQwen3 Omni 30B A3B InstructGLM 5 TurboLeads
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis16.4%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct":reasoning=false98.5%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueGLM 5 Turbo
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis4.6%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct":reasoning=false27.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueGLM 5 Turbo
WildClawBench OpenClawWildClawBench—33.9Only 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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Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo: common questions

Is Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct better than GLM 5 Turbo?

GLM 5 Turbo ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 23 September 2026: #97 against #100. 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. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct cheaper than GLM 5 Turbo?

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, Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct or GLM 5 Turbo?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct or GLM 5 Turbo?

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 Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct and GLM 5 Turbo open-weight models?

Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct: Restricted license. GLM 5 Turbo: API only. 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 Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct and GLM 5 Turbo?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct and 1 for GLM 5 Turbo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 23 September 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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