Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

qwen · Released Jul 29, 2025
Intelligence #177 / 756
41.7 our score
Speed #63 / 335
157.2 tok/s
Input Price #187 / 798
$0.048 per 1M tokens
Output Price #214 / 798
$0.193 per 1M tokens
Context #248 / 798
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is a compact Qwen model with a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. The supplied results show useful mathematical capability and moderate instruction, coding, and long-context performance, making it appropriate for structured generation, extraction, SEO operations, and routine technical assistance.

Pricing is especially low at 0.0482 per million input tokens and 0.1931 per million output tokens. That supports high-volume workflows where occasional review is acceptable, such as metadata generation, content briefs, classification, and internal knowledge processing. Its lower reasoning and agentic results make it a poor choice for autonomous, high-stakes decisions or complex code changes. Use it as a budget workhorse with validation around factual and tool-driven outputs.

Assessed September 7, 2026

Editorial notes

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is an inexpensive, tool-enabled model with 262K context and useful instruction and math results, but its broader reasoning and agent reliability remain limited.

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DFO Verdict

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is an inexpensive, tool-enabled model with 262K context and useful instruction and math results, but its broader reasoning and agent reliability remain limited.

#177 of 756 overall

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 #259 of 443 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #121 of 192 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 69% of the models we list. At $0.05 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 77% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 77% of models #177
Speed: faster than 81% of models #63
Price: cheaper than 77% of models #187
Context: larger than 69% of models #248
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-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 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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