Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 API Pricing
Alibaba · Budget · Qwen · released 2025-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
The price we publish for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 has changed 3 times since 2026-08-15, most recently on 2026-09-24 when the reference host changed (+60.4%); it is now the 47th cheapest of 142 Budget models. Buying from StreamLake rather than at the rate quoted here lowers the token price by about 38%. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.10 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 262K
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 market position
On blended price ($0.240 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 65% of Budget models: 47th cheapest of 142, tied with 3 others. Across every category it is cheaper than 83% of priced text models in the catalogue: 47th cheapest of 281, tied with 3 others.
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 licence, size and capabilities
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Qwen, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 30B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.03 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $30 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $44 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $136 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $79 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $90 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $33 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $41 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $150 |
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 5 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
Cheapest host: StreamLake at $0.05 input / $0.19 output per 1M tokens, 38% below the price we publish on a blended basis (30% input, 70% output). The dearest, Alibaba, charges 2.7x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| StreamLake | $0.05 | $0.19 |
| DekaLLM | $0.09 | $0.30 |
| SiliconFlow — fp8 | $0.09 | $0.30 |
| Nebius (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.10 | $0.30 |
| Alibaba | $0.13 | $0.52 |
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 price history
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.05 input / $0.19 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 3 times since then, every time through a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-24, was +60.4% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.10 input / $0.30 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is +60.4% against 2026-08-15.
| Date | Old price (in / out) | New price (in / out) | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | $0.05 / $0.19 | $0.10 / $0.30 | +60.4% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-13 | $0.09 / $0.30 | $0.05 / $0.19 | -36.9% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-11 | $0.05 / $0.19 | $0.09 / $0.30 | +58.4% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
Alternatives to Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
- Next cheaper Budget model: MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi) at $0.238 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) at $0.254 blended, 6% more.
Common questions about Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 pricing
- How much does Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 cost?
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 costs about $30 at list prices.
- Has the price of Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 changed?
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.05 input / $0.19 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 3 times since then, every time through a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-24, was +60.4% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.10 input / $0.30 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is +60.4% against 2026-08-15.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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