Qwen3.8 27B (Low) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen3.8 27B (Low) 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.

AlibabaQwen3.8 27B (Low)Off the frontier
Intelligence
26.20
Total cost
$1165
AlibabaQwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
7.90
Total cost
-
Verdict

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

MetricQwen3.8 27B (Low)Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)26.27.9−69.8% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 69.8% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$1,164.93Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)55.08s24.27s−55.9% Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Inst… is 55.9% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.50 / $3.00$0.35 / $0.60
Input modalitiesText, Image, VideoText, Image
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