Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct API pricing
Alibaba · Budget price tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct has held the same list price since 2026-10-18 and is the 49th cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price we quote. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.07 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.28 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 262K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Available on
AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Market position
On blended price ($0.217 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 71% of models in the Budget price tier: 49th cheapest of 164. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 84% of priced text models in the catalogue: 49th cheapest of 308.
Licence, size and capabilities
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token. Its published size is 30B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.0183 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
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The price we quote is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: SiliconFlow at $0.07 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, Amazon Bedrock, charges 2.1x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| SiliconFlow (price we quote) | $0.07 | $0.28 | fp8 |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.15 | $0.60 | not declared |
List prices as published on 2026-10-22, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
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 Alibaba 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 | $25 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $36 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $104 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $68 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $77 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $27 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $34 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $126 |
Price history
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.07 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
Alternatives to Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Qwen3 14B (Alibaba) at $0.204 blended, 6% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3 32B (Alibaba) at $0.22 blended, 1% more.
Other models from Alibaba
The 8 nearest to Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct in price, of 41 other Alibaba models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Qwen3.5-9B: $0.08 / $0.13
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: $0.10 / $0.20
- Qwen3.5-Flash: $0.065 / $0.26
- Qwen3 14B: $0.12 / $0.24
- Qwen3 32B: $0.08 / $0.28
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: $0.09 / $0.30
- Qwen3.8 Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
- Qwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
All 42 Alibaba models and prices
Common questions about Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct pricing
- How much does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost?
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.07 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens at SiliconFlow, the host whose rate we quote. SiliconFlow serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Which host is cheapest for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
- The price we quote is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: SiliconFlow at $0.07 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, Amazon Bedrock, charges 2.1x the cheapest. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct as of 2026-10-22.
- What would Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $25 on Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct be self-hosted?
- Yes. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is open source: its weights are published under Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence with no field-of-use limit, so it can be self-hosted as well as bought by the token.
- Has the price of Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct changed?
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.07 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-10-18. Last checked against the 2026-10-22 snapshot.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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