Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct vs R1 0528
How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct and R1 0528.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception...
R1 0528
May 28th update to the [original DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1) Performance on par with [OpenAI o1](/openai/o1), but open-sourced and with fully open reasoning tokens. It's 671B parameters in size, with 37B active...
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | R1 0528 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | DeepSeek |
| Context Window | 262,144 tokens | 163,840 tokens |
| Agent Suitability | N/A | N/A |
| Time to First Token (TTFT) | N/A | N/A |
| Deployment Model | self hostable | self hostable |
| Production Stability | stable | stable |
| API Available | Yes | Yes |
| Released Date | 2025-10-06 | 2025-05-28 |
API Pricing Comparison
Input Price per Million Tokens
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
$0.13
R1 0528
$0.50
Output Price per Million Tokens
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
$0.52
R1 0528
$2.15
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Benchmark Performance Metrics
Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Quirks & Gotchas
No developer gotchas reported.
R1 0528 Quirks & Gotchas
No developer gotchas reported.