The closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) — comparable intelligence (14.9 vs 15.0); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.048/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Nemotron Nano 12B 2 VL (free) is the closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, with an Intelligence Index of 14.9 (Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 scores 15.0) at Free per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.048 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.