Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking: side-by-side summary

Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Granite 4.0 Micro, from ibm-granite, has a 131,000-token context window and is priced at $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking, from Qwen, has a 262,144-token context window and is priced at $0.20/M tokens input, $2.40/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Granite 4.0 Micro: 131,000 tokens
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking: 262,144 tokens

Price

• Granite 4.0 Micro: $0.017/M tokens input, $0.112/M tokens output
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking: $0.20/M tokens input, $2.40/M tokens output

Provided by

• Granite 4.0 Micro: ibm-granite
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking: Qwen

• Granite 4.0 Micro model details, providers and pricing
• Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking model details, providers and pricing