Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is a text model by Alibaba. 8 providers serve it, from $0.389 to $0.70 /1M; the lowest price is at SiliconFlow.
How Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.389 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 71% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 262K-token context window is larger than 45% of them (median 262K), about 390 pages of text.
- 8 providers serve it; 73% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 SiliconFlow | $0.097/1M | $0.389/1M | — | — |
 NEAR AI Cloud | $0.15/1M | $0.55/1M | $0.03/1M | 16K |
 Hugging Face | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | — | — |
 Deep Infra | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | — | 262K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | — | — |
 Novita AI | $0.20/1M | $0.70/1M | — | — |
 Prime Inference | $0.20/1M | From$0.70/1M | — | — |
- SiliconFlow$0.389
- NEAR AI Cloud$0.55
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.60
- Deep InfraFrom$0.60
- OpenRouterFrom$0.60
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.60
- Novita AI$0.70
- Prime InferenceFrom$0.70
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Alibaba
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 262K≈ 390 pages of text
- Max output
- 236K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Sep 30, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 31B
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instructthis model | $0.389/1M | 262K | — | 8 |
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The lowest price for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is $0.389 /1M, at SiliconFlow.
SiliconFlow, at $0.389 /1M. 8 providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct reads up to 262K tokens per request and writes up to 236K.
Yes. Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 31B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
8 API providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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