Pairwise benchmark snapshot · Aug 17, 2026noindex (thin pair)

Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct benchmark

Name: Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct AI benchmark comparison
Creator: CompareLLM
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In this head-to-head showdown, Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is more budget-friendly at $0.52/1M per 1M output tokens. Review the complete breakdown below to determine which model best fits your performance and budget requirements.

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Executive Verdict Summary

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct holds empirical advantage (3 of 3 metrics)

Coding / SWESWE-bench

Claude Opus 4Top code solve rate

ReasoningGPQA / Live

Claude Opus 4Top logical accuracy

Best Value$/1M Tok

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructLowest API billing cost

Speed / TokTok/Sec

Claude Opus 4Fastest stream rate

Verified Advantage Breakdown

3 benchmarks evaluated across capability, speed, and cost

Claude Opus 4 (0)Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (3)

Claude Opus 4

0 of 3 Wins

Competitive baseline across remaining benchmarks

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

3 of 3 Wins

✓Input price✓Output price✓Context window

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

First Claude 4 Opus generation. Baseline for opus 4 vs opus 5.

Elo 1,490In: $15 · Out: $75/1M

Alibaba

Leads 3 of 3

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Auto-discovered from OpenRouter (qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct). Preview until a second source matches.

In: $0.13 · Out: $0.52/1M

Top Rival Showdowns for Claude Opus 4

All Matchups

Compare vs:vs GPT-5 vs Gemini 3 Pro vs Grok 4.6 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Qwen 3 Max

Preference Leader

No shared data

Single model data

Throughput Leader

No shared data

No latency data

Value per Dollar LeaderQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Wins

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

$0.52 / 1M output

Capability Percentiles

Relative percentile scores computed across all active models in the benchmark catalog.

Multi-Dimensional Capability Radar

Leaders Matchup Capability Radar

Comparing top standard models across 6 key capability dimensions. Tap any spoke or dot to inspect.

Tap any node to inspect

0–100 %ile

Overall Matchup Breakdown

Category wins across reasoning intelligence, generation speed, and token cost.

Claude Opus 4 (7)vsQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (3)

Claude Opus 4: 7W (70%)Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 3W (30%)

← Claude Opus 4Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct →

🏆Claude Opus 4 Leads(5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

Preference Elo, Coding proficiency, SWE-bench & LiveBench accuracy

Benchmark

Claude Opus 4vsQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Preference Elo

1,490vs—

Coding Elo

1,502vs—

SWE-bench

72.5%vs—

LiveBench

66.8%vs—

GPQA Diamond

80.4%vs—

Claude Opus 4: 5WQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 0W

🏆Claude Opus 4 Leads(2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Benchmark

Claude Opus 4vsQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Output speed

58 tok/svs—

Time to first token

390 msvs—

Claude Opus 4: 2WQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 0W

🏆Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Leads(3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Benchmark

Claude Opus 4vsQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Output price

$75/1Mvs$0.52/1M+$74.48/1M

Input price

$15/1Mvs$0.13/1M+$14.87/1M

Context window

200kvs262k+62k

Claude Opus 4: 0WQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: 3W

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Claude Opus 4Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Preference Elo

Claude Opus 41,490

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Coding Elo

Claude Opus 41,502

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

LiveBench

Claude Opus 466.8%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

SWE-bench

Claude Opus 472.5%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

GPQA Diamond

Claude Opus 480.4%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Time to first token

Claude Opus 4390 ms

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Output speed

Claude Opus 458 tok/s

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Input priceQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +$14.87/1M

Claude Opus 4$15/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.13/1M

Output priceQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +$74.48/1M

Claude Opus 4$75/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.52/1M

Context windowQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +62k

Claude Opus 4200k

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct262k

Benchmark	Claude Opus 4	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	Advantage Delta
Preference Elo	1,490 lmarena · Aug 17, 2026	—	—
Coding Elo	1,502 lmarena · Aug 17, 2026	—	—
LiveBench	66.8% livebench · Aug 17, 2026	—	—
SWE-bench	72.5% swebench · Aug 17, 2026	—	—
GPQA Diamond	80.4% seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Time to first token	390 ms seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Output speed	58 tok/s seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026	—	—
Input price	$15/1M openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	$0.13/1M openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	+$14.87/1M
Output price	$75/1M openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	$0.52/1M openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	+$74.48/1M
Context window	200k openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	262k openrouter · Aug 17, 2026	+62k

Workload Cost & Savings Calculator

Simulate monthly production API costs in USD (US Dollar).

Save 99% with Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

Quick Presets:

Token Ratio (In vs Out)70% In / 30% Out

RAG / Search (10% out)Coding / Chat (50% out)

Claude Opus 4$1,650.00 / mo

In: $525Out: $1,125

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$12.35 / mo

In: $4.55Out: $7.8

Estimated Cost Delta

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is estimated to save $1,637.65/month ($19,652/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct:Pick Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct when you are optimizing output cost.

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Lower output list price ($0.52/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionClaude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	Lower output list price ($0.52/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Opus 4	Claude Opus 4 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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Verified Head-to-Head Telemetry

LIVE BENCHMARK

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

Elo 1,490

SWE-bench72.5%

Speed (tok/s)58 tok/s

Input / 1M Tokens$15/1M

Output / 1M Tokens$75/1M

Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Elo n/a

SWE-bench—

Speed (tok/s)262k

Input / 1M Tokens$0.13/1M

Output / 1M Tokens$0.52/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?: We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.
Which is better at coding, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?: SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.
Which is cheaper to run in production?: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct output tokens are $0.52/1M versus $75/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts 262k tokens versus 200k.
Can I self-host either model?: Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.
Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?: No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.
What does preference Elo mean on this page?: Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Opus 4 and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

Similar Head-to-Head Comparisons

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Capability Percentiles

Relative percentile scores computed across all active models in the benchmark catalog.

Multi-Dimensional Capability Radar

Leaders Matchup Capability Radar

Comparing top standard models across 6 key capability dimensions. Tap any spoke or dot to inspect.

Tap any node to inspect

0–100 %ile

Side-by-Side Benchmark Matrix

Claude Opus 4Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Preference Elo

Claude Opus 41,490

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Coding Elo

Claude Opus 41,502

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

LiveBench

Claude Opus 466.8%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

SWE-bench

Claude Opus 472.5%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

GPQA Diamond

Claude Opus 480.4%

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Time to first token

Claude Opus 4390 ms

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Output speed

Claude Opus 458 tok/s

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct—

Input priceQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +$14.87/1M

Claude Opus 4$15/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.13/1M

Output priceQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +$74.48/1M

Claude Opus 4$75/1M

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.52/1M

Context windowQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct +62k

Claude Opus 4200k

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct262k

Benchmark

Claude Opus 4

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Advantage Delta

Preference Elo

1,490

lmarena · Aug 17, 2026

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Coding Elo

1,502

lmarena · Aug 17, 2026

—

LiveBench

66.8%

livebench · Aug 17, 2026

—

SWE-bench

72.5%

swebench · Aug 17, 2026

—

GPQA Diamond

80.4%

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Time to first token

390 ms

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Output speed

58 tok/s

seed-bootstrap · Aug 1, 2026

—

Input price

$15/1M

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

$0.13/1M

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

+$14.87/1M

Output price

$75/1M

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

$0.52/1M

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

+$74.48/1M

Context window

200k

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

262k

openrouter · Aug 17, 2026

+62k

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Lower output list price ($0.52/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Larger window (262k).

Screenshots / visionClaude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Target Workload	Recommended Pick	Evaluation Rationale
Repo / coding agents	insufficient data	Need SWE-bench on both sides.
High-volume chat	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	Lower output list price ($0.52/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Opus 4	Claude Opus 4 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

We do not have preference Elo for both models, so we do not declare an overall winner. Compare the metrics that exist.

Which is better at coding, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

SWE-bench is missing for at least one model, so we do not rank coding from a single number.

Which is cheaper to run in production?

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct output tokens are $0.52/1M versus $75/1M. Input prices and retry rates still move the real bill.

Which is faster, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts 262k tokens versus 200k.

Can I self-host either model?

Neither model is marked open-weights here. You are comparing hosted APIs.

Are these scores from CompareLLM’s own evals?

No. V1 aggregates public leaderboards (and optional first-party latency pings). Each cell names its source and date. Read /methodology.

What does preference Elo mean on this page?

Preference Elo is a crowd vote from LMArena / Arena. People see two hidden answers and pick the one they like more. The model that wins more often gets a higher Elo. That means people preferred it — not that it passed a school test. It is not SWE-bench, not accuracy, and not a number we invent. Claude Opus 4 and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.