Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct comes from Qwen. It was released in July 2025. We place it in the Professional tier, where it sits at #10 of 565 models overall. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #169 of 374, putting it in the upper half for overall intelligence.
On coding it ranks #147 of 311, a reasonable fit for everyday development support. It also ranks #156 of 286 for agentic, multi-step tasks ā the autonomous, tool-driven workflows that underpin business automation. Its 160K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct combines tool use, function calling, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.
At $0.070 input and $0.270 output per 1M tokens, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is a dependable pick for businesses that need strong, well-rounded performance without paying frontier prices.
Editorial notes
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B is a compact MoE coding model with tool use at very low cost, but benchmark scores are modest across reasoning and agentic tasks; suitable for budget-conscious coding workflows with limited complexity.
Assessed May 31, 2026
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How Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct compares
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct ranks #169 of 374 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #147 of 311 for coding, #156 of 286 for agentic tasks. Its 160K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. At $0.07 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 70% of comparable models.
About Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
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 |
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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
How much does Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.27 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct has a context window of 160,000 tokens (160K).
Is Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct ranks #147 of 311 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct do?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is developed by Qwen and was released on July 31, 2025.
