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Qwen3 30B A3B: price, performance and context

Open Qwen3 30B A3B by Qwen costs $0.12 per 1M input and $0.50 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 41K tokens in one request (≈ 120 pages of text) and scores 7.6 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 179 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.12
Output / 1M tokens
$0.50
Context window
41K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
7.6 points · rank 179 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.245 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025
In the catalog since
Apr 28, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0035,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0043,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00115,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0018,600
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go–does not fit the context

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