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Using Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Qwen3-VL · Alibaba

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OpenRouter exposes Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct through model ID qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.13/1M input, $0.52/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.13
Output tokens$0.52

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal MoE model from Alibaba unifying text generation with visual understanding for images, charts, and documents at 128K context.

Model Specs

Released2025-09-18
Parameters30B
Context128k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

OpenRouter
OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA