The closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B is GLM 4.5V — comparable intelligence (15.1 vs 15.3); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.120/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
GLM 4.5V is the closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B, with an Intelligence Index of 15.1 (Qwen3 30B A3B scores 15.3) at $0.600 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.120 for Qwen3 30B A3B, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.