Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba · Released Apr 2025
A 30.5-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Alibaba that activates 3.3 billion parameters per token with a 40,960-token context window.
- Strengths
- Efficient inference through mixture-of-experts routing while maintaining general-purpose capability across reasoning, coding, and instruction-following tasks.
- Best for
- Applications requiring a balance between model capability and computational efficiency, or as a stepping stone before moving to larger 235B models.
- Limitations
- The 40,960-token context window is smaller than later Instruct and Thinking variants released in mid-2025, and mixture-of-experts models may show uneven performance across specialized domains compared to task-specific alternatives.
Input / 1M
$0.12
Output / 1M
$0.5
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
40K
Price history
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Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 30 Sep 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 29 Sep 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Sep 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Sep 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Aug 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Aug 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 26 Jul 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 18 Jul 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.12 | $0.5 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |