Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is a budget multimodal model with vision support and low pricing, but its intelligence index is very limited and overall benchmark performance is below average, making it suitable only for the lightest business tasks.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Parameters | 30B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.13 | $0.000130 |
| Output | $0.52 | $0.000520 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
