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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen3 30B A3B

Claude Opus 5.5 grades higher overall (99.5 against 40.4). Qwen3 30B A3B costs 97% less for the same work.

Claude Opus 5.5

by Anthropic · #1 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00

Qwen3 30B A3B

by Qwen · #56 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
40K
Input / 1M
$0.12
Output / 1M
$0.50

Better overall

Claude Opus 5.5

Grade 99.5 vs 40.4

Cheaper

Qwen3 30B A3B

97% less, $0.21 vs $8.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5.5

1M vs 40K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,508
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,811
Qwen3 30B A3BQwen3 30B A3B: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,545
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Qwen3 30B A3BQwen3 30B A3B: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Qwen3 30B A3BQwen3 30B A3B: —

Claude Opus 5.5Qwen3 30B A3Bv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5.5$1,600 /month
Qwen3 30B A3B$44.00 /month

Qwen3 30B A3B saves you $1,556 a month at this usage, $18,672 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5Qwen3 30B A3B
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 99.5Good · 40.4
Overall rank#1 of 67#56 of 67
Input price$4.00 per 1M$0.12 per 1M
Output price$20.00 per 1M$0.50 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens40,960 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesNo
Model IDclaude-opus-5-5qwen3-30b-a3b

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "qwen3-30b-a3b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 30B A3B better?

Claude Opus 5.5 grades 99.5 against 40.4 for Qwen3 30B A3B, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 30B A3B?

Qwen3 30B A3B: $0.12 in and $0.50 out per million tokens, against $4.00 and $20.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 5.5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.