Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct
Wins 2 of 5 areas
Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 2 of 5 areas
Coding · Reasoning
The two are evenly matched.Claude 3.5 Haiku is better at long documents and following instructions; Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct at reasoning and coding.
Scores updated · 11 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the five areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking02Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- CodingWriting and fixing software01Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct1 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude 3.5 Haiku1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Claude 3.5 Haiku1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up11Even1 each
Coding, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+25.1points ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+3.8points ahead
- Very hard expert questions across many subjectsHumanity's Last Exam+3.3points ahead
Where Claude 3.5 Haiku pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+54.3points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+9.7points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+1points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 11 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct by 3.82.36.1+3.8
ReasoningQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct
- GPQA DiamondQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct by 25.140.865.9+25.1
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct by 3.33.66.9+3.3
- CritPttie00tie
FactsEven
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationClaude 3.5 Haiku by 54.358.94.6+54.3
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyQwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct by 1.813.215+1.8
Following instructionsClaude 3.5 Haiku
- IFBenchClaude 3.5 Haiku by 9.742.833.1+9.7
Other results3 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- AA-OmniscienceClaude 3.5 Haiku by 43.6-22.5-66.2+43.6
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude 3.5 Haiku by 14.424.610.2+14.4
- AA IntelligenceClaude 3.5 Haiku by 1.48.97.5+1.4
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct each win two of the five areas where both have results. Claude 3.5 Haiku wins long documents and following instructions; Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct wins coding and reasoning. They are level on facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct. It wins the one coding test both models report.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 11 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 8 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 3 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.