Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

qwen · Released Jul 29, 2025
Intelligence #193 / 715
41.5 our score
Speed #55 / 323
157.2 tok/s
Input Price #177 / 738
$0.048 per 1M tokens
Output Price #204 / 738
$0.193 per 1M tokens
Context #205 / 738
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is a compact text model offering a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling at exceptionally low pricing. It has useful mathematical and coding signals for its size, but the overall reasoning, instruction-following, long-context, and agentic results are limited. The model is better understood as an efficient task engine than a general problem solver.

It suits classification, extraction, SEO formatting, routine code assistance, and tightly specified tool workflows. It is not a strong choice for strategic analysis, complex autonomous agents, or high-stakes client copy, where weak long-context and agentic results can create rework. No vision capability is listed.

Its price makes it compelling for bulk traffic and fallback routing. Adopt it for constrained workloads with validation, while escalating ambiguous or reasoning-intensive requests to a stronger model.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is a very low-cost text model with 262K context, tool use, and function calling. Its limited reasoning and agentic results make it best for constrained, high-volume tasks.

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DFO Verdict

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is a very low-cost text model with 262K context, tool use, and function calling. Its limited reasoning and agentic results make it best for constrained, high-volume tasks.

#193 of 715 overall Down 5 this week

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 65.9%
HLE 6.8%
MMLU Pro 77.7%
MATH 500 97.5%
AIME 72.7%
AIME 2025 66.3%
SciCode 30.4%
LiveCodeBench 51.5%
TerminalBench Hard 6.1%
τ²-Bench 10.2%
IFBench 33.1%
LCR 22.7%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

9.1 Intelligence Index·8.1 Agentic Index·66.3 Math Index

How Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 compares

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 ranks #289 of 430 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #125 of 185 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 72% of the models we list. At $0.05 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 76% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 73% of models #193
Speed: faster than 83% of models #55
Price: cheaper than 76% of models #177
Context: larger than 72% of models #205
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 $0.05 in $0.19 out
OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol $2.00 in $10.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 262K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence2.5Technical1.6Value8.3Content4.5
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.05 $0.000048
Output $0.19 $0.000193

What would Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

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About Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is a 30.5B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model from Qwen, with 3.3B active parameters per inference. It operates in non-thinking mode and is designed for high-quality instruction following, multilingual understanding, and..

Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

How much does Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 cost?

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.19 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).

What can Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 do?

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 supports tool use and function calling.

Who created Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is developed by Qwen and was released on July 29, 2025.

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