As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B is 28% cheaper per million tokens than QwQ-32B-Preview. Qwen3 30B A3B is $0.10 / $0.44 per million input/output tokens versus QwQ-32B-Preview at $0.15 / $0.60. Source: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/
Source: Qwen pricing (https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/)
Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.44
QwQ-32B-Preview
Qwen
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.60
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Qwen3 30B A3BQwQ-32B-PreviewVerdict
Qwen3 30B A3B offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 20, 2026, Qwen3 30B A3B is 28% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.44 per million output tokens ($0.54 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). QwQ-32B-Preview costs $0.15 / $0.60 per million tokens ($0.75 blended). Sources: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/ and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.44 output per million tokens via Qwen. QwQ-32B-Preview Qwen API pricing is $0.15 input and $0.60 output per million tokens via Qwen. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Qwen3 30B A3B leads on LiveCodeBench: Qwen3 30B A3B at 62.6% vs QwQ-32B-Preview at 50%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
Qwen3 30B A3B supports a 128K token context window, while QwQ-32B-Preview supports 33K tokens. Qwen3 30B A3B offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Qwen3 30B A3B leads on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks versus QwQ-32B-Preview's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Qwen3 30B A3B and QwQ-32B-Preview are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Qwen3 30B A3B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Qwen3 30B A3B through Qwen and QwQ-32B-Preview through Qwen with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Qwen API pricing and Qwen API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/ and https://bailian.console.aliyun.com/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Qwen3 30B A3B supports up to 128K output tokens per request, while QwQ-32B-Preview supports up to 33K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Qwen3 30B A3B runs at approximately 88.84 tokens/second while QwQ-32B-Preview runs at 76.04 tokens/second. Qwen3 30B A3B is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Qwen3 30B A3B or QwQ-32B-Preview from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.10/M input and $0.44/M output. QwQ-32B-Preview costs $0.15/M input and $0.60/M output.
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