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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: price, performance and context

Open Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct by Qwen costs $0.15 per 1M input and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 7.9 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 171 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with 3 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 99.2%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:49 UTC · qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$0.60
Context window
262.1K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
7.9 points · rank 171 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.30 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025
In the catalog since
Oct 06, 2025
Capabilities
Vision, 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$0.0029,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0036,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00113,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0017,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.016620

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