Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3, the latest generation in the Qwen large language model series, features both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures to excel in reasoning, multilingual support, and advanced agent tasks. Its unique...

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Overview

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Score

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8 benchmarks

Avg Latency

149.8s

11 requests

Pricing

$0.09 in / $0.45 out

per 1M tokens

Context

41K

tokens

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Quickstart

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Get started with this model using OpenRouter

import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Other Models from Qwen

Compare performance with other models from the same creator

Model	Latency	Cost/1M	Score
Qwen3.6 Max Preview	21.5s	$3.64	49%
Qwen3.6 Plus	32.3s	$1.14	37%
Qwen3.6 Flash	9.2s	$0.66	33%
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20	—	$1.05	—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B	11.3s	$0.57	—
Qwen3.6 27B	22.3s	$1.76	—
Qwen3.5-9B	97.6s	$0.09	—
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	43.1s	$0.57	—
Qwen3.5-27B	57.6s	$0.88	—
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	—	$1.17	—
Qwen3.5-Flash	—	$0.16	—
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15	31.8s	$0.91	—
Qwen3.5 397B A17B	3.5s	$1.36	—
Qwen3 Max Thinking	—	$2.34	—
Qwen3 Coder Next	1.9s	$0.45	—
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct	21.8s	$0.26	—
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking	79.4s	$0.74	—
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct	123.8s	$0.29	—
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	83.6s	$0.85	—
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	38.3s	$0.33	—
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking	112.0s	$1.43	—
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	37.5s	$0.54	—
Qwen3 Max	31.7s	$2.34	—
Qwen3 Coder Plus	20.5s	$1.95	—
Qwen3 Coder Flash	13.3s	$0.58	—
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	28.8s	$0.44	—
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	—	Free	—
Qwen Plus 0728	49.2s	$0.52	—
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	44.0s	$0.24	—
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct	30.8s	$0.17	—
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	25.3s	$0.19	—
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	248.4s	$0.82	—
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B	6.2s	$1.01	—
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	24.4s	$0.09	—
Qwen3 8B	111.5s	$0.22	—
Qwen3 14B	70.4s	$0.17	—
Qwen3 32B	30.4s	$0.18	—
Qwen3 235B A22B	78.3s	$1.14	—
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct	22.1s	$0.50	—
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct	12.6s	$0.07	—
Qwen VL Max	36.4s	$2.00	—
Qwen-Plus	22.0s	$0.52	—
Qwen VL Plus	10.4s	$0.42	—
Qwen3 4B (free)	—	Free	—
Qwen-Turbo	18.6s	$0.13	—
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	6.4s	$0.06	—
QwQ 32B	143.6s	$0.28	—
Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct	39.1s	$0.14	—
Qwen-Max	12.7s	$4.00	—
Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct	20.7s	Free	—
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	19.7s	$0.83	—
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct	22.2s	$0.38	—