Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 131K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.6 / 1M output. An efficient MoE coding specialist with 30B total and 3B active parameters, balancing strong code generation performance with cost-effective inference.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecating
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output131K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters30B
Release Date · 1 year ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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
ProviderStandardFlexFastBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Amazon Bedrock
qwen.qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-v1:0
$0.15$0.6$0.075$0.3$0.263$1.05$0.075$0.3
Pinstripes
pinstripes/ps/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
$0.3$0.6——————
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Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
$0.15$0.6——————

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 Coder 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)
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Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NP20sAzure2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)128 GB$3.30/hr
g7e.2xlargeAWSRTX PRO Server 600096 GB$3.36/hr
Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4AzureNVIDIA A10080 GB$3.67/hr
7 more instances can run Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Filetrans————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Streaming————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime——$0.230$0.930Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS————Available
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Image 3————Available
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro————Available
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B262K$0.150$0.600Current

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
pinstripes/ps/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b
qwen.qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-v1:0