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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct pricing

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. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct from Alibaba (Qwen) costs $0.070 per 1M input tokens and $0.280 per 1M output tokens. Context window 262,144 tokens.

API id qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct · Alibaba (Qwen) · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$0.070
Input / 1M tokens
$0.280
Output / 1M tokens
—
Cached input / 1M
262K
Context window

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct specifications

API id
qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
262K tokens
Max output
236K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
Provider API
Last checked
2026-09-25

Tags

  • coding

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct across providers

The same model, priced by every seller we track. Ranked by the cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens, standard tier; savings measured against buying from the vendor directly.

ProviderInput /1MCached /1MOutput /1M1M in + 1M outvs vendor
Alibaba (Qwen)VendorCheapestviewing
$0.070—$0.280$0.35—
$0.070—$0.280$0.35—

What Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0002
Document summary50,0002,000$0.0041
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$0.13

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.070 per 1M input tokens and $0.280 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's context window?
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 235,929 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper Qwen model than Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Yes. Qwen3.5-Flash is $0.065 per 1M input tokens versus $0.070 for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, with a 1,000,000 token context window.
Where does this Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because Alibaba (Qwen) does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from Alibaba (Qwen)'s own — verify before committing spend.

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