# Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct

> Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is an open-weight language model from Alibaba (Qwen), released on Apr 2025. It accepts text and generates text, with a 262K-token context window and up to 66K output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.26 per million output tokens (Hugging Face Inference Providers), across 6 providers we track.

Source page: https://www.aimodel.directory/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
Last verified: 4 Oct 2026

## Specifications

- **Developer:** Alibaba (Qwen)
- **Release date:** Apr 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Status:** Generally available (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Weights:** Open weights (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct)
- **License:** apache-2.0 (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct)
- **Parameters:** 30.5B (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct)
- **Context window:** 262K (262,144 tokens) (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Max output:** 66K tokens (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Knowledge cutoff:** Apr 2025 (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Input:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Output:** Text (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Reasoning mode:** No (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Tool calling:** Yes (source: models.dev, https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/alibaba/models/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.toml)
- **Hugging Face:** Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (source: Hugging Face, https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct)

## API pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow | $0.07 | $0.28 | – | 262K |
| Novita AI | $0.07 | $0.27 | – | 160K |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers | $0.07 | $0.26 | – | 262K |
| OpenRouter | $0.07 | $0.28 | – | 262K |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.15 | $0.60 | – | 262K |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | $0.45 | $2.25 | – | 262K |

## FAQ

### What is the context window of Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K) and can generate up to 65,536 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.

### How much does the Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct API cost?

Through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct costs $0.45 per million input tokens and $2.25 per million output tokens. The lowest listed price is $0.07 input / $0.26 output through Hugging Face Inference Providers. Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.

### Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct open source?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.

### When was Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct released?

Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct on Apr 2025, according to models.dev.

### Which providers offer Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct?

We track Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct on 6 providers: SiliconFlow, Novita AI, Hugging Face Inference Providers, OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.

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