The closest alternative to Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is Nova Premier 1.0 — comparable intelligence (19.0 vs 20.0); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.070/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Nova Premier 1.0 is the closest alternative to Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, with an Intelligence Index of 19.0 (Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct scores 20.0) at $2.50 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.070 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.