Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 by alibaba is currently listed from a single provider. Its reference price is $0 per 1M tokens. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 9.8 on the Intelligence Index, with 12.1 for coding and 0.9 for agentic tasks. Median output speed is 145 tokens per second, with 2.37s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0766, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens, with an output limit of 16,384 tokens. It supports tool use. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LMStudio | Cloud | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 16,384 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
This model is $0 across all listed channels (LMStudio).
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.