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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct vs GLM 5 Turbo
Live dataset updated 9/22/2026, 3:10:38 AM UTC
Open 1200×630 evidence receipt| Field | GLM 5 Turbo Z.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #93 | #92 |
| Index score | 52.4 | 52.6 |
| Evidence | Estimatedpublisher-corpus-prior over 203 held-out anchors (7%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 4 rows (94%); no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 0.1 up toward the measured corpus | Measuredpublisher-corpus-prior over 203 held-out anchors (64%); 1 specialist-board observation at 1.2% support (36%); shrunk 23.8 up toward the measured corpus |
| Input / 1M | $0.07 | $1.20 |
| Output / 1M | $0.28 | $4.00 |
| Pricing status | fresh | fresh |
| Context | 262K | 203K |
| Providers | 4 | 1 |
| Weight access | Open weights | API only |
Decision facts
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is #93; GLM 5 Turbo is #92 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 52.4 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct and 52.6 for GLM 5 Turbo. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is Estimated; GLM 5 Turbo is Measured.
- Listed output price per 1M tokens is $0.28 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct and $4.00 for GLM 5 Turbo. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.28 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct versus $4.40 for GLM 5 Turbo. 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 262,144 tokens for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct and 202,752 for GLM 5 Turbo.
- Weight access differs: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is open; GLM 5 Turbo is none.
- ModelCap currently lists 4 providers for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct and 1 for GLM 5 Turbo.
These are separate published fields, not a synthetic winner. ModelCap does not collapse price, access, context, and capability evidence into a hidden recommendation score.
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