Qwen3-30B-A3B

Name: Qwen3-30B-A3B
Author: Alibaba

Released

2025-04-28

Last refreshed

2026-06-30

Status

Researched 112d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedRAGLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use

Qwen3-30B-A3B is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
Workloads that can use a 128k context window
Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

Vision or document-understanding workloads

Specifications

Family: Qwen3
Released: 2025-04-28
Context: 128k
Parameters: 30B
Architecture: Mixture of Experts
Specialization: general
Openness: Open source
License: Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Pretrained

Created by

Alibaba

AI research institute of Alibaba Group.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Founded 2017

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.280

Input / 1M

$0.080

Cheapest of 7 routes · OpenRouter

Providers(7)

Cloudflare Workers AI OpenRouter Fireworks AI AWS Bedrock Vercel AI Gateway Novita AI NextBit

View 7 provider routes

Links

Website

About

Alibaba's Qwen3-30B with 3B active parameters via mixture-of-experts architecture. Delivers strong performance with efficient inference on Cloudflare Workers AI platform.

Top use-case fit

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Long context

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 7

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
OpenRouter	$0.080	$0.280	Serverless
Vercel AI Gateway	$0.080	$0.290	Serverless
AWS Bedrock	$0.100	$0.300	Serverless
Cloudflare Workers AI	$0.051	$0.335	Serverless

Available via routers & gateways(2)

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.

PassthroughFireworks AI

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.

PassthroughAWS Bedrock

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.