Qwen3 30B A3B is Alibaba's language model with a 131K context window and up to 20K output tokens, available from 8 providers, starting at $0.051 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. A Mixture-of-Experts LLM with 30B total parameters and 3B active parameters per token, balancing efficiency and strong reasoning performance.
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill✓
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Batch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.2 | $0.8 | $0.1 | $0.4 | |
| $0.051 | $0.335 | — | — | |
| $0.08 | $0.29 | — | — | |
| $0.15 | $0.6 | — | — | |
| $0.1 | $0.3 | — | — | |
| $0.09 | $0.45 | — | — | |
| $0.12 | $0.5 | — | — | |
| $0.09 | $0.2 | — | — | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 30B A3B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 72 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NP20s | 2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) | 128 GB | $3.30/hr | westus2 | ||
| g7e.2xlarge | RTX PRO Server 6000 | 96 GB | $3.36/hr | us-east-1 | ||
| Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 | NVIDIA A100 | 80 GB | $3.67/hr | westus2 | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiroThinker 1.7 | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking | 262K | $0.130 | $0.900 | Available | |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 262K | $0.070 | $0.270 | Available | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct | 262K | $0.100 | $0.300 | Available | |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking | 262K | $0.149 | $0.880 | Deprecated | |
| Qwen3 Coder | 1.0M | $0.300 | $1.00 | Deprecating | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | 131K | $0.051 | $0.200 | Current | |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | 262K | $0.090 | $0.540 | Available | |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct | — | 262K | $0.220 | $1.30 | Available |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct | — | 262K | $0.090 | $0.580 | Available |
| KwaiPilot KAT Coder | — | 262K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |