Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 30B
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Qwen3 30B by Alibaba Cloud? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM 41K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B91% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision93% CHEAPER
Meta
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
Ministral 3 3B87% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Qwen3.5 9B85% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 262K ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash83% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k92% CHEAPER
Groq
Larger contextSame category
$0.05 in · $0.08 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Llama 3.1 8B93% CHEAPER
Meta
Larger contextSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
Ministral 3 8B80% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.15 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 37 128K ctx 98%
Qwen Turbo88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
Qwen 7B88% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Larger contextSame category
$0.072 in · $0.144 out / 1M Tokens 131K ctx 78%
Mistral Small 480% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
GPT OSS 20B88% CHEAPER
Together AI
Larger contextSame category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 68%
Ministral 387% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Larger contextSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Ministral87% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Larger contextSame category
$0.1 in · $0.1 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 78%
Gemini 2.0 Flash77% CHEAPER
Google
Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)84% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Larger contextSame category
$0.07 in · $0.27 out / 1M Tokens 63 64K ctx 80%
OpenAI GPT OSS 20B83% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
Larger contextSame category
$0.07 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
GPT OSS 20B 128k83% CHEAPER
Groq
Larger contextSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 128K ctx 98%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.