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Start with o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, or choose any two current ranked language models. Compare capability evidence, price, context, provider availability, and weight access without pretending one field decides every use case.

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o4 Mini vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Live dataset updated 9/10/2026, 11:40:10 AM UTC

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Factual comparison of o4 Mini and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Field
o4 Mini

OpenAI

ModelCap position#95#92
Index score45.948.1
EvidenceMeasured3 public benchmark observations across 3 boardsEstimatedpublisher-corpus-prior over 185 held-out anchors (7%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 4 rows (94%); no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 0.2 up toward the measured corpus
Input / 1M$1.10$0.07
Output / 1M$4.40$0.28
Pricing statusfreshfresh
Context200K262K
Providers14
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights

Decision facts

  • o4 Mini is #95; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is #92 on the same current language board.
  • Index scores are 45.9 for o4 Mini and 48.1 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
  • Evidence differs: o4 Mini is Measured; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is Estimated.
  • Listed output price per 1M tokens is $4.40 for o4 Mini and $0.28 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $4.40 for o4 Mini versus $0.28 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs 93.6% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
  • Published context is 200,000 tokens for o4 Mini and 262,144 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct.
  • Weight access differs: o4 Mini is none; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is open.
  • ModelCap currently lists 1 providers for o4 Mini and 4 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct.

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