Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #167 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.070 input and $0.270 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is a low-cost coding-focused model with tool use and a 160K context window, but intelligence and agentic indices are limited for professional-grade tasks; -4 penalty applied for provider accessibility.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | July 31, 2025 |
| Context Length | 160,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.07 | $0.000070 |
| Output | $0.27 | $0.000270 |
Live Performance
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