Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025)
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) (Alibaba) was released on Jul 29, 2025. In the Epoch AI capability ranking (ECI), it ranks #135 out of 267 models, with 137.42.
Where Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) stands out and where it falls behind, by the numbers
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) has published results on 4 tests compiled by Epoch AI. The yardstick here is its generation: its position among the models released between Nov 1, 2024 and Oct 27, 2025 that took the same test. Against the whole archive, which includes 2023 models, a recent release lands near the top of almost everything, and that says nothing.
Where it stands out
Tests where it sits in the top third of its own generation.
It is not in the top third of its generation on any test with 6 or more models compared.
Where it falls behind
Tests where it sits in the bottom half of its own generation.
See all 4 tests, one by one
| Test | Score | In its generation | Overall | Test record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.6% | #40 / 53 | #123 / 173 | 96.4% Gemini 4 Argon |
| AIME 2024 and 2025 (OTIS) | 62.2% | #25 / 53 | #107 / 168 | 100.0% GPT-5.5 |
| Dtbench | 67.2% | #27 / 46 | #97 / 148 | 98.9% Claude Opus 5.5 |
| Lmca | 22.37 | #19 / 38 | #88 / 121 | 68.23 Claude Opus 5.5 |
For each test, the model's best effort level counts, as in the ranking. Source of the scores: Epoch AI, under CC BY 4.0.
What to compare Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) with
The models from other labs closest in capability and released in the same period, at most two per lab. Click any of them to see its page.
| Model | Lab | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok 3 | xAI | 138.32 | n/a | n/a | Apr 9, 2025 |
| gpt-oss-20b | OpenAI | 137.81 | 1,315 | n/a | Aug 5, 2025 |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B | DeepSeek | 137.42 | n/a | n/a | Jan 20, 2025 |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) | Alibaba | 137.42 | n/a | n/a | Jul 29, 2025 |
| GPT-4.1 | OpenAI | 136.77 | n/a | n/a | Apr 14, 2025 |
| DeepSeek-V3 (Mar 2025) | DeepSeek | 135.93 | 1,346 | n/a | Mar 24, 2025 |
| Mistral Medium 3.1 | Mistral AI | 135.67 | n/a | n/a | Aug 12, 2025 |
Other models from Alibaba
The models from the same lab closest in time, newest first.
| Model | Release | ECI | ELO | LiveBench | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Max-Instruct | Sep 24, 2025 | 142.46 | n/a | n/a | API access |
| Qwen3-Max | Sep 24, 2025 | 142.34 | 1,478 | n/a | API access |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking (Jul 2025) | Jul 30, 2025 | 139.61 | 1,347 | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) | Jul 29, 2025 | 137.42 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Jul 25, 2025 | 143.88 | 1,483 | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (Jul 2025) | Jul 25, 2025 | 143.81 | 1,384 | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (Jul 2025) | Jul 25, 2025 | 138.92 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-32B | Apr 29, 2025 | 138.49 | 1,362 | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
| Qwen3-14B | Apr 29, 2025 | 138.22 | n/a | n/a | Open weights (unrestricted) |
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Where does Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) rank among AI models?
In the ROO3 AI Benchmark, ordered by the Epoch AI ECI, Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct (Jul 2025) ranks #135 out of 267 models, with an ECI of 137.42. The ECI is a composite index that combines several hard benchmarks into a single scale. The position changes when a new model comes out, and the page is refreshed six times a day.
Where do the numbers on this page come from?
From the same three sources as the ranking, all openly licensed: Epoch AI (ECI and individual tests, CC BY 4.0), Arena (human-preference ELO, CC BY 4.0) and LiveBench (overall average, CC BY-SA 4.0). ROO3 does not measure any model. When the page shows a figure published by the maker itself, it appears in the written analysis, labeled as the maker's, and never enters the ranking.
Where each number comes from
Epoch AI, "AI Benchmarking Hub". Published at epoch.ai. Data under the CC BY 4.0 licence, reordered by roo3.co.
The Arena (LMArena) leaderboard, from the public lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, under the CC BY 4.0 licence. We are not affiliated with the Arena.
LiveBench, by the LiveBench team, published at livebench.ai under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The overall average is recomputed by roo3.co with the same formula as the website (average of the categories), and those numbers stay under CC BY-SA 4.0. We are not affiliated with LiveBench.
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