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Alibaba Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Open vision-language MoE model for image and video understanding, documents, and visual agents

Source-linked qwen Open weights Apache-2.0 Released 2025-10-04
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Input price$0.15/M
Output price$0.6/M
Context262.144K
Max output32.768K
Providers8
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Providers

Provider-specific identifiers, limits, and listed prices per million tokens. Every row links back to the provider's own documentation.

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Providers offering Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
ProviderProvider model IDContextMax outputInputOutputCache readCapabilitiesDocs
Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct 262.144K 32.768K $0.15 $0.6 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
Kilo Gateway qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 262.144K 16.384K $0.15 $0.6 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
OpenRouter qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 262.144K 16.384K $0.15 $0.6 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
DevPass (LLM Gateway) qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 262.144K 8.192K $0.15 $0.6 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
Novita AI qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 131.072K 32.768K $0.2 $0.7 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
Hugging Face Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct 131.072K 32.768K $0.2 $0.7 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
Eden AI qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 131.072K 32.768K $0.2 $0.8 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗
Prime Inference qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct 262.144K 16.384K $0.2 $0.7 — ToolsJSON Docs ↗

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Listed rates

Price across providers

Input price per million tokens as published by each provider. Bars are drawn from listed rates only — no traffic weighting, since the catalog observes no requests.

Lowest input $0.15/M

Across 8 priced providers

Median input $0.175/M

Midpoint of listed rates

Highest input $0.2/M

1.3× the lowest listed rate

Output range $0.6 – $0.8

Per million output tokens

Deep Infra $0.15/M
Kilo Gateway $0.15/M
OpenRouter $0.15/M
DevPass (LLM Gateway) $0.15/M
Novita AI $0.2/M
Hugging Face $0.2/M
Eden AI $0.2/M
Prime Inference $0.2/M
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4 providers list the identical $0.15 input rate, so price alone will not separate them — compare context limits, max output, and capabilities above.

Context limits also differ by provider, from 131.072K to 262.144K tokens. Compare the provider table above before choosing on price alone.

Specification

Capabilities

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× Reasoning No
✓ Tool calling Yes
✓ Structured output Yes
✓ Attachments Yes
✓ Vision input Yes
✓ Open weights Yes
Model family
qwen
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
License
Apache-2.0
Release date
2025-10-04
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

Weights: Hugging Face ↗

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curl "https://modelbench.lol/api/v1/models/alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct"
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What is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Open vision-language MoE model for image and video understanding, documents, and visual agents. It is published by Alibaba Qwen and catalogued here from Models.dev.

How much does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cost?

Listed input pricing starts at $0.15 per million tokens from Deep Infra, rising to $0.2 across 8 listed providers.

What is the context length of Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts up to 262.144K tokens of context and returns up to 32.768K output tokens.

Does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct support tool calling and structured output?

Provider catalogs list support for tool calling, structured output, and image input.

Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

8 providers list this model: Deep Infra, Kilo Gateway, OpenRouter, DevPass (LLM Gateway), Novita AI, Hugging Face and 2 more.

Are the weights for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct open?

Yes. The weights are published and downloadable from Hugging Face under the Apache-2.0 license.

When was Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct released?

The catalog records a release date of 2025-10-04, last verified Oct 24, 2026.

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