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

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

Name: Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking AI benchmark comparison
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This page compares Claude Opus 4 (Anthropic) and Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking (Alibaba) using the latest snapshots we have as of Aug 17, 2026. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking wins on output price at $2.4/1M. Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking has the larger context window (262k tokens). Every cell below is a dated snapshot from a named public source — we do not invent missing scores, and we do not run SWE-bench ourselves.

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Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

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

Elo 1,490$75/1M out

Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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$2.4/1M out

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Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

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

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

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

Claude Opus 4 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

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

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 Thinking: 0W

Claude Opus 4 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

58 tok/svs—

Time to first token

390 msvs—

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

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$75/1Mvs$2.4/1M

Input price

$15/1Mvs$0.2/1M

Context window

200kvs262k

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

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Dimensional AdvantageClaude Opus 4 4/6

Preference Elo

No shared data

Throughput Speed

No shared data

Price Efficiency

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

$72.60/1M cheaper

Full Benchmark Score Matrix

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Elo

High is better

1,490

EloHigh is better

—

Code Elo

High is better

1,502

Code EloHigh is better

—

LiveBench

High is better

66.8%

LiveBenchHigh is better

—

SWE-bench

High is better

72.5%

SWE-benchHigh is better

—

GPQA

High is better

80.4%

GPQAHigh is better

—

TTFT

Low is better

390 ms

TTFTLow is better

—

Speed

High is better

58 tok/s

SpeedHigh is better

—

In $

Low is better

$15/1M

In $Low is better

$0.2/1M+7400%

Out $

Low is better

$75/1M

Out $Low is better

$2.4/1M+3025%

Context

High is better

200k

ContextHigh is better

262k+31%

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Simulate monthly production API costs based on published $/1M tokens.

Save up to 97% with Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Monthly Volume50M tokens/mo

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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: $525.00Out: $1125.00

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking$43.00 / mo

In: $7.00Out: $36.00

Estimated Cost Delta

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking is estimated to save $1,607.00/month ($19,284/year).

Based on 50M tokens (30% gen)

Key Selection Recommendations

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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking:Pick Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking 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 Thinking

Lower output list price ($2.4/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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 Thinking	Lower output list price ($2.4/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	Larger window (262k).
Screenshots / vision	Claude Opus 4	Claude Opus 4 is the side marked multimodal in the catalog.

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Anthropic

Claude Opus 4

Elo 1,490

LiveBench66.8%

SWE-bench72.5%

Speed58 tok/s

Output cost$75/1M

Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Elo n/a

LiveBench—

SWE-bench—

Speed—

Output cost$2.4/1M

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?: 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 Thinking?: 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 Thinking output tokens are $2.4/1M 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 Thinking?: We do not have TTFT for both models.
Which has the larger context window?: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking 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 Thinking Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.

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

Interactive Comparison Diagram

Matchup Breakdown

Tug-of-War Matchup Matrix

Category wins across intelligence, speed, and pricing efficiency.

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

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

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

Claude Opus 4 (5/5)

Intelligence & Reasoning

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

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 Thinking: 0W

Claude Opus 4 (2/2)

Speed & Latency

Generation throughput and time to first token responsiveness

Output speed

58 tok/svs—

Time to first token

390 msvs—

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

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking (3/3)

Pricing & Capacity

Cost per million tokens and max context window length

Output price

$75/1Mvs$2.4/1M

Input price

$15/1Mvs$0.2/1M

Context window

200kvs262k

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

Recommended Workload Routing

Repo / coding agentsinsufficient data

Need SWE-bench on both sides.

High-volume chatQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Lower output list price ($2.4/1M).

Voice / low-latency UIinsufficient data

Need TTFT on both sides.

Long-document RAGQwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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 Thinking	Lower output list price ($2.4/1M).
Voice / low-latency UI	insufficient data	Need TTFT on both sides.
Long-document RAG	Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	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 Thinking?

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 Thinking?

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 Thinking output tokens are $2.4/1M 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 Thinking?

We do not have TTFT for both models.

Which has the larger context window?

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking 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 Thinking Elo cells are dated snapshots from the named source — we do not compute Arena ourselves.