Using Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Qwen3-Coder · Alibaba

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct through model ID alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b. 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 Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.15/1M input, $0.60/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$0.60

Capabilities

JSON / Tool useStructured OutputsCode Execution

About Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is Alibaba's efficient open-source code generation model in the Qwen3-Coder family, released December 3, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. The model has 30.5 billion total parameters with 3.3 billion active per forward pass, organized across 48 transformer layers with 128 experts and 8 activated per token. It uses Grouped Query Attention (GQA) with 32 query heads and 4 key-value heads. Native context window is 262,144 tokens, extendable to 1 million tokens via YaRN. The model supports multi-turn tool calling, function calling, repository-level code understanding, and structured outputs.

Model Specs

Released2025-12-03
Parameters30.5B total, 3.3B active
Context262k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel