Model index · Text · text generation · standard · open weights · Alibaba · released 2025-07-31

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct pricing

Served by 8 providers from $0.1175 to $0.7625 per 1M tokens on the standard tier — a 6.5× gap for identical weights.

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the...

Alibaba · 30.53B parameters · apache-2.0 · first published 2025-07-31 · Text model · text generation · 262k context · description as published by the source, not written by us

Open weights: Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct · 30.53B parameters counted from the weight files · licence apache-2.0 · 1.2M downloads in the last 30 days . Parameter count and licence come from the public weights registry, not from a seller — and the download figure exists only for models published this way, so it is not a market-wide popularity measure.

$0.1175

Cheapest standard /1M — DeepInfra

262k

Native context window

8

Providers serving it

Quality not measured yet

Quality not measured yet

We measure models on request rather than pre-scoring the whole catalog, so this one has no score yet. Absence of a score is not a low score.

At 1M requests/month (1500 in / 500 out tokens), moving from DigitalOcean to DeepInfra saves about $1,290/month.

Illustrative traffic shape, stated so you can check it against your own. Same weights both sides — but confirm quantisation and context below before switching.

Every provider and service tier

Standard on-demand rows first, cheapest of each group first. Tiers are not interchangeable — see the note below the table.

Provider In /1M Out /1M Blended /1M Tier Region Source
DeepInfra cheapest standard $0.0700 $0.2600 $0.1175 standard provider_api
Novita $0.0700 $0.2700 $0.1200 standard third_party
Novita $0.0700 $0.2700 $0.1200 standard provider_api
SiliconFlow $0.0700 $0.2800 $0.1225 standard third_party
OpenRouter (default route) *
resells other hosts
$0.0700 $0.2800 $0.1225 standard provider_api
Amazon (Bedrock) $0.1500 $0.6000 $0.2625 standard third_party
Alibaba $0.2925 $1.46 $0.5850 standard third_party
DigitalOcean $0.4500 $1.70 $0.7625 standard third_party

* OpenRouter chooses a host for each request, and the figure above is what its default choice costs — not a fixed rate for this model. Selecting a specific host through the same account costs whatever that host charges, which is why this row can sit above or below the hosts listed beside it. Token rates are passed through from the underlying provider with no markup, so the per-1M price above is what that host charges directly — OpenRouter's own charge sits on funding instead: 5.5% (min $0.80) by Stripe or 5% by Coinbase to buy credits, 5% of the equivalent spend if you bring your own provider key. So budget about 5% above the rate shown unless you already hold credit. Fee schedule.

Compare Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct with alternatives

One model per vendor, ordered by how prominent the vendor is and how many independent providers serve the model — hosts only carry what customers ask for, so that is a real demand signal. This is not traffic or popularity data, which we do not have. Every alternative below does the same job — text generation — because a price comparison between a generator and, say, an upscaler is arithmetic rather than advice. Prices on both sides are standard on-demand rates, so the comparison is like for like — a discounted batch or flex rate is never shown against another model’s standard rate.

AlternativeVendor $/1M vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct QualityKindContextHosts
KAT-Coder-Air V2.5 Kwaipilot $0.2625
OpenRouter (default route)
123% dearer not measured standard 256k 1
Codestral 2508 Mistral $0.4500
Mistral
283% dearer not measured standard 256k 1
GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini OpenAI $0.6875
OpenRouter (default route)
485% dearer not measured reasoning 400k 1
Kimi K2.7 Code MoonshotAI $1.35
OpenRouter (default route)
1051% dearer not measured reasoning
open weights
262k 19
Seed-2.0-Code ByteDance Seed $1.13
OpenRouter (default route)
857% dearer not measured reasoning 262k 1

Prices are the cheapest host for each model, blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio. "Quality" is our own probe suite where we have run it — see what it measures. A cheaper alternative is only a real saving if it also passes on the capability your workload needs.

Before you switch

Identical weights do not guarantee identical output. Check that the cheaper host serves the model at full precision rather than a quantised copy, that its context window matches what you need, and that its rate limits carry your peak traffic. A cheaper host that cannot take your throughput is not cheaper — it is an outage.

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Frequently asked

How much does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost?

The cheapest standard-tier provider is DeepInfra at $0.1175 per 1M tokens blended (3:1 input:output). The dearest is DigitalOcean at $0.7625 — a 6.5× difference for the same weights. Prices change often; verify with the provider before budgeting.

Which provider is best for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?

Cheapest is not automatically best. Compare quantisation (a lossy copy of the weights changes output), the context window each host actually serves, and rate limits. Where a provider serves less context than the model's native window we flag it in the table above.

Can I switch providers for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct without changing code?

Yes, if you route through an abstraction. VernaOne exposes one API across every provider listed here, so switching host is a config change and you keep automatic fallback if the new one degrades.

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