Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Alibaba · Multimodal · Released Oct 2025
A 30-billion-parameter multimodal vision-language model from Alibaba that processes text, images, and video with a 131k-token context window.
- Strengths
- Handles multimodal tasks across text, image, and video inputs at a mid-range parameter scale with a long context window.
- Best for
- Vision-language applications that need reasonable capability without the overhead of larger models like the 235B variant.
- Limitations
- Does not include extended reasoning capabilities; for reasoning on multimodal tasks, use Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking instead.
Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.6
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in decreased 0.0% out decreased 0.0%
- 90d
- in increased 15.4% out increased 15.4%
- 1y
- in increased 15.4% out increased 15.4%
- Since launch
- in increased 15.4% out increased 15.4%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2026 | $0.15 | $0.6 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 14 Aug 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 4 Aug 2026 | $0.15 | $0.6 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 31 Jul 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 30 Jul 2026 | $0.15 | $0.6 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 29 Jul 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Jul 2026 | $0.15 | $0.6 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |