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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 236K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.6 / 1M output. A thinking-mode vision-language MoE model with 30B total and 3B activated parameters, featuring extended context and enhanced spatial and video dynamics comprehension.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output236K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters30B
HuggingFace Likes197
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)69,267
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)881,118
Release Date · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

Capabilities

Input2/5
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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
$0.15$0.6
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
$0.2$1.00
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
$0.29$1.00

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking, 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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Instance
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 VL 30B A3B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking262K$0.150$0.600Current
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.150$0.600Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct262K$0.200$0.880Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking262K$0.220$0.880Deprecated

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
alibaba-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking