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ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Baidu · released

Wins 6 of 7 areas

Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Facts · Images and charts · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 7 areas

Long documents

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is cheaper and better at long documents.

Scores updated · 19 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the seven 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.

Agents, images and charts, 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.

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview$0.89 to read · $3.58 to write$4.47Price from Baidu's own price page
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct$0.20 to read · $0.80 to write$1.00Price from Alibaba's own price page

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct costs 78% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview pulls ahead

  • Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+18.9points aheadERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview25Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct6.1
  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+8.3points aheadERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview41.4Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct33.1
  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+8.2points aheadERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview77.7Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct69.5

Where Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+20.3points aheadQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct27.3ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview7

Every test, side by side

All 19 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Full coding ranking

AgentsERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
  • GDPValERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview by 14.414.40+14.4

Full agents ranking

ReasoningERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Full reasoning ranking

FactsERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview

Full facts ranking

Images and chartsERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
  • MMMU-ProERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview by 2.564.662.1+2.5

Full images and charts ranking

Long documentsQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
  • AA-LCRQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct by 20.3727.3+20.3

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview
  • IFBenchERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview by 8.341.433.1+8.3

Full following instructions ranking

Other results8 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview or Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, facts, images and charts and following instructions. Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct wins long documents, and costs 78% less.

Which is better for coding?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct wins none.

Which is cheaper?

ERNIE 5.0 Thinking Preview costs $0.89 per million input tokens and $3.58 per million output tokens; Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.20 and $0.80. That makes Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct about 78% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 19 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 11 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 8 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.