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Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025)

AlibabaReleased 30 Jul 2025Open
131120–143Index score#115 of 229 models
1/ 8Core tests taken1 of 6 areas · plus 4 anchor tests
−16Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o3
$0.20/ $2.4Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
82KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

o1 reached this score 8 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
70%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingno evidence yet
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#115of 219 · 131

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Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

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Facts and sources

Released30 Jul 2025
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entry–
Scored asQwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025)
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

Alibaba releasesaround this one