Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is a language model from Qwen released on Sep 23, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 33K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
11 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, Hugging Face and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.108 per million tokens at Merge Gateway.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 33K
- Released
- Sep 23, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.15 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.60 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct providers
11 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, Hugging Face and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.108 per million tokens at Merge Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Infra | $0.15 | $0.60 | – | 262K | 33K |
| Hugging Face | $0.20 | $0.70 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Novita AI | $0.20 | $0.70 | – | 131K | 33K |
| SiliconFlow | $0.29 | $1 | – | 262K | 262K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.108 | $0.43 | $0.0216 | 131K | 33K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.15 | $0.60 | – | 262K | 8K |
| Eden AI | $0.15 | $0.60 | – | 262K | 33K |
| Kilo Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | – | 262K | 16K |
| NEAR AI Cloud | $0.15 | $0.55 | $0.03 | 16K | 8K |
| Prime Inference | $0.20 | $0.70 | – | 262K | 16K |
| SiliconFlow (China) | $0.29 | $1 | – | 262K | 262K |
What Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct costs per month
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Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct questions
How much does the Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct API cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 32,768 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
11 providers serve it, including Deep Infra, Hugging Face and Novita AI. The lowest input price is $0.108 per million tokens at Merge Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct released?
Sep 23, 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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