The closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is Qwen3.7 Flash — comparable intelligence (— vs —); for a cheaper option, gpt-oss-120b runs $0.037/M vs $0.048/M; and the best open-weight substitute is Kimi K3.
Qwen3.7 Flash is the closest alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, with an Intelligence Index of — (Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 scores —) at $0.030 per million input tokens.
Yes — gpt-oss-120b costs $0.037 per million input tokens versus $0.048 for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
Kimi K3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 57.1 on intelligence.