Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Name: Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Author: OpenRouter

apache-2.030B / 3B

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos.

Context

262K

Max output

16K

Input price

$0.15/1M tokens

Output price

$0.6/1M tokens

Capabilities

Show unsupported (2)

Reasoning & Interaction

Reasoning

Tool Calling

Output Control

Structured Output

JSON Mode

Infrastructure

Streaming

Fine-tuning

Details

Model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

ProviderOpenRouter

CreatorQwen

Familyqwen3

Licenseapache-2.0

Status—

Typechat

Input modalitiestext, image

Output modalitiestext

Open weightYes

Parameters30B / 3B

Architecture—

Context window262K tokens

Max input—

Max output16K tokens

Reasoning tokens—

Knowledge cutoff—

Release date2025-10-06

Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling

Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input

$0.15

Output

$0.6

Cache write

—

Cache read

—

Batch in

—

Batch out

—

Family Comparison: qwen3

Model	Caps	Perf	Speed	Context	Max out	Pricing
Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free)	RTJJM	—	—	41K	—	—
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)	T	—	—	1.0M	262K	—
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (free)	TJJM	—	—	262K	—	—
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.07$0.28
Qwen: Qwen3 32B	RTJJMSBF	—	—	131K	16K	$0.08$0.28
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	16K	$0.09$0.55
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	16K	$0.09$1.1
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.1$0.3
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct	RTJJMSF	—	—	131K	33K	$0.1$0.42
Qwen: Qwen3 8B	RTJJMSBF	—	—	131K	8K	$0.12$0.46
Qwen: Qwen3 14B	RTJJMSBF	—	—	41K	16K	$0.12$0.24
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B	RTJJMSBF	—	—	41K	16K	$0.12$0.5
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Next	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.12$0.8
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.15$1.2
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	RTJJMSF	—	—	262K	16K	$0.15$0.6
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking	RTJJMSF	—	—	131K	33K	$0.18$2.1
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash	RTJJMSBF	—	—	1M	66K	$0.2$0.98
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	RTJJMSBF	—	—	82K	33K	$0.2$2.4
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	RTJJMSF	—	—	262K	33K	$0.21$1.9
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct	RTJJMSF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.25$0.75
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	RTJJMSF	—	—	262K	236K	$0.29$1
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B	TJJM	—	—	262K	66K	$0.3$1
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking	RTJJMSF	—	—	131K	33K	$0.4$4
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	RTJJMSBF	—	—	128K	16K	$0.45$3.5
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus	RTJJMSBF	—	—	1M	66K	$0.65$3.25
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking	RTJJM	—	—	262K	66K	$0.78$3.9
Qwen: Qwen3 Max	RTJJMSBF	—	—	262K	66K	$0.78$3.9

API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos.

Changes · 15 entries

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM

context_window131072→262144

max_output_tokens32768→16384

pricinginput$0.13→$0.15output$0.52→$0.6

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate99b2555Sep 25, 2026, 06:38 AM

max_output_tokens32768→16384

pricinginput$0.13→$0.15output$0.52→$0.6

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate7bc8de4Sep 20, 2026, 06:33 AM

pricinginput$0.2→$0.13output$0.7→$0.52

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate3170597Sep 19, 2026, 06:34 AM

pricinginput$0.13→$0.2output$0.52→$0.7

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate40decdeSep 16, 2026, 06:38 AM

max_output_tokens16384→32768

pricinginput$0.15→$0.13output$0.6→$0.52

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM

max_output_tokens32768→16384

pricinginput$0.13→$0.15output$0.52→$0.6

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdatebe35184Aug 17, 2026, 04:02 AM

max_output_tokens16384→32768

pricinginput$0.15→$0.13output$0.6→$0.52

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate19c9fe3Aug 5, 2026, 03:04 PM

max_output_tokens32768→16384

pricinginput$0.13→$0.15output$0.52→$0.6

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdatec67ed84Jul 31, 2026, 10:28 AM

max_output_tokens16384→32768

pricinginput$0.15→$0.13output$0.6→$0.52

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdatebf78dcfJul 25, 2026, 05:49 AM

max_output_tokens32768→16384

pricinginput$0.13→$0.15output$0.52→$0.6

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate73d11c6May 18, 2026, 03:39 AM

context_window131072→262144

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate1cd659eMar 24, 2026, 04:19 AM

capabilitiesjson modeyes

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate2b100acMar 23, 2026, 05:30 AM

parameters30

active_parameters3

release_date2025-10-06

taglineQwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unif...

tools["function_calling"]

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructupdate7a4f1f6Mar 22, 2026, 05:43 AM

model_typechat

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructcreate7f5c66fMar 21, 2026, 05:16 AM