Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

AnthropicClaude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)On the frontier
Intelligence
57.60
Total cost
$8708
AlibabaQwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
7.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricClaude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)57.67.9−86.3% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 86.3% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$8,708.20Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)626.13s20.21s−96.8% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 96.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$4.00 / $20.0$0.35 / $0.60
Input modalitiesText, ImageText, Image
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