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Qwen3 Coder

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Qwen3 Coder is Alibaba's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 262K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.3 / 1M input and $1.00 / 1M output. A large-scale MoE code generation model from the Qwen3 series, optimized for agentic coding tasks including function calling, tool use, and long-context code understanding.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-coder
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecating
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window1.0M tokens
Max Output262K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters480B
HuggingFace Likes1,326
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)55,845
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)887,658
Release Date · 12 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Deprecation Date

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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-coder
$0.3$1.00$0.1
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-coder
$1.50$7.50$0.3

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 Coder, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 1152 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_ND96isr_MI300X_v5Azure8× AMD Instinct MI300X1536 GB$48.00/hrwestus3
p6-b200.48xlargeAWS8× B2001432 GB$113.93/hrus-east-2
p6-b300.48xlargeAWS8× B3002149 GB$142.42/hrus-east-1

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
MiroThinker 1.7————Available
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking262K$0.130$0.900Available
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.070$0.270Available
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.100$0.300Available
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking262K$0.149$0.880Deprecated
Qwen3 Coder1.0M$0.300$1.00Current
Qwen3 30B A3B131K$0.051$0.200Deprecated
Qwen3 235B A22B262K$0.090$0.540Available
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct—262K$0.220$1.30Available
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct—262K$0.090$0.580Available
KwaiPilot KAT Coder—262K$0.900$0.900Available

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-coder
alibaba/qwen3-coder
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder
qwen/qwen3-coder
qwen/qwen3-coder:free
vercel_ai_gateway/alibaba/qwen3-coder