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Qwen3 30B A3B
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-30b-a3b·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Sparse MoE Qwen model with 3B active parameters for efficient chat and reasoning
At a glance
Reference price$0.11 / $1.08 per 1M
Cache read — · 302.AI
Lowest paid$0.08 / $0.29
Helicone Gateway · 1.6× spread
Context128,000
⚠ Providers report 40,000–131,072; the table below is authoritative
Output limit8,192
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2025-04-28 / 2025-04-28
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence9.2
Value69
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed103 tok/s
TTFT2.18 s
Value formulaIQ 9.2 ÷ min blended $0.133 = 69
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 6.6 · 107 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 9.2 · 103 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 12 providers11 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helicone | Gateway | $0.08 | $0.29 | — | — | 41,000 ⚠ | 41,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.30 | $0.05 | — | 41,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Jiekou.AI qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.45 | — | — | 40,960 ⚠ | 20,000 | |
| NovitaAI qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8 | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.45 | — | — | 40,960 ⚠ | 20,000 | |
| Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B | Cloud | $0.12 | $0.50 | — | — | 40,960 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Hugging Face Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B | Cloud | $0.12 | $0.50 | — | — | 40,960 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway alibaba/qwen-3-30b | Cloud | $0.12 | $0.50 | — | — | 40,960 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.13 | $0.52 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $0.108 | $1.08 | $0.022 | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| 302.AI | Gateway | $0.11 | $1.08 | — | — | 128,000 | 8,192 | |
| Qiniu | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 40,000 ⚠ | 4,096 | hostTable.undisclosed |
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.
Your usage cost
1NanoGPT$29.00
2Helicone$30.50
3Jiekou.AI$40.50
4NovitaAI$40.50
5Deep Infra$49.00
6Hugging Face$49.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = noneeffort = high
4 / 12 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended