DeepSeek-V3 is the latest model from the DeepSeek team, building upon the instruction following and coding abilities of the previous versions. Pre-trained on nearly 15 trillion tokens, the reported evaluations reveal that the model outperfo…
Model details →DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the Qwen3 a…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 164K | 160K | 🏆 DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.32 | $0.07 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.89 | $0.27 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | — | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) better than Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Input: $0.32 vs $0.07 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.89 vs $0.27 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct support?
DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) supports up to 164K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct supports up to 160K tokens.
Do both DeepSeek Chat (legacy id) and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct support tool calling?
DeepSeek Chat (legacy id): yes. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: yes.