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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is a large language model from Qwen. It costs $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens. Its context window is 262K tokens.

Tool callingStructured outputOpen weightsimage input
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150
Output / 1M tokens
$0.600
Cached input / 1M
-

Not supported

Context window
262K

tokens

Who serves it cheapest

4 hosts serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct. Same weights, same API - the price difference is pure margin and routing.

Providers serving Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct, cheapest first
ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MContextThroughputUptime 24h
AlibabaCheapest$0.130$0.520131K-100.0%
DeepInfrafp8$0.150$0.600262K-95.4%
Novitabf16$0.200$0.700131K-97.1%
SiliconFlowfp8$0.290$1.00262K-93.6%

The spread between Alibaba and SiliconFlow is 2.1× for identical weights. Quantization and context limits differ, so check both columns before switching.

About Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

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...

Specifications

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct specifications
Model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct
ProviderQwen
Context window262K tokens
Max output16K tokens
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiestext
Knowledge cutoff2025-03-31
Open weightsYes - Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
ReleasedOctober 6, 2025

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cost?

$0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

262K tokens, with up to 16K tokens of output per request.

Which provider serves Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cheapest?

Alibaba at $0.130 per million input tokens - 2.1× cheaper than SiliconFlow, the most expensive of the 4 hosts serving it.

Confirm against the source: Qwen official pricing.