Model comparison
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads 39.2 to 31.0.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 38.8 | 38.9 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 41K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 38.5 (#175), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1314 | 1416 |
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 29.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41.4% |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 25.9 (#141), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1299 | 1398 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| DTBench | — | 69.3% |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.63 |
Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 36.1 (#174), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1298 | 1394 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 70.3% |
Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 35.5 (#183), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1289 | 1396 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 70.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.3% |
Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 41.9 (#201), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1265 | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1433 |
| LMArena German | 1231 | 1380 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | 1337 |
| LMArena Russian | 1271 | 1370 |
| LMArena French | — | 1418 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1404 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 67.2 (#199), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1275 | 1363 |
Long Context Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 39.2 (#184), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1292 | 1379 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 49.4 (#192), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1299 | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1262 | 1317 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1299 | 1378 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 and Qwen3-30B-A3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.8 vs 38.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (38.5 vs 37.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.