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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pricing & benchmarks

Released Oct 6, 2025 · served by 5 providers

Input / 1M tokens$0.130
Output / 1M tokens$0.520
Context window262K
Cached input
1M in + 300K out$0.29

What Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception...

Providers and prices for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. Prices are per 1M tokens, cheapest first. Uptime and throughput are OpenRouter's rolling measurements, not vendor claims.

ProviderInputOutputContext QuantUptime 24hThroughput
Alibabacheapest $0.130 $0.520 131K 100.0%
DeepInfra $0.150 $0.600 262K fp8 99.4%
Novita $0.200 $0.700 131K bf16 97.1%
Phala $0.200 $0.700 128K 0.0%
SiliconFlow $0.290 $1.00 262K fp8 97.5%

FAQ

How much does the Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct API cost?

$0.130 per 1M input tokens and $0.520 per 1M output tokens. A typical workload of 1M input + 300K output tokens costs about $0.29.

Is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct free?

No. It is a paid model starting at $0.130 per 1M input tokens, though some providers offer trial credits.

Which provider is cheapest for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Alibaba at $0.130 input / $0.520 output per 1M tokens.

Can I self-host Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Yes — weights are published as Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct on Hugging Face, so you can run it on your own hardware.