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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.200

Output / 1M tokens

$2.40

Context window

262,144 tokens

≈ 350 pages of text

Max output

32,768 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0012

1,000 requests / month$1.20/mo 10,000 requests / month$12.00/mo 100,000 requests / month$120.00/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.

What it excels at

Performs well on multimodal tasks combining text and image inputs with 128k context and 32k output capacity. Open weights enable local or custom deployment.

The business tradeoff

Output token cost is elevated relative to input; inference speed and quality vary significantly with hosting implementation.

Cheaper from Qwen

Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen$0.0006/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request Qwen3.7 FlashQwen$0.0001/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI$0.0027/ typical request Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic$0.0096/ typical request Llama 4 MaverickMeta$0.0006/ typical request

Head-to-head

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking vs GPT-5.4 Mini →Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 →Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking vs Llama 4 Maverick →

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 28, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.