Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct API pricing
Alibaba · Budget price tier · Apache 2.0 · released 2025-10. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-10-22.
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct has held the same list price since 2026-10-18 and is the 85th cheapest of 164 models in the Budget price tier. None of its 3 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: $0.15 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.60 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: Not published
- Context window: 262K tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.465 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 44% of models in the Budget price tier: 85th cheapest of 164, tied with 7 others. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 70% of priced text models in the catalogue: 85th cheapest of 308, tied with 7 others.
Licence, size and capabilities
Qwen3 VL 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, Vision, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.0393 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token: the model maker, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent host. One model, several hosts, and often several prices. This model is sold by 3 different hosts. The price we quote elsewhere on this page is marked. We quote one host's rate so that models stay comparable; it is not a recommendation to buy there.
The price we quote is already the cheapest of the 3 hosts: DeepInfra at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, SiliconFlow, charges 1.7x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra (price we quote) | $0.15 | $0.60 | fp8 |
| Novita | $0.20 | $0.70 | bf16 |
| SiliconFlow | $0.29 | $1.00 | fp8 |
List prices as published on 2026-10-22, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
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 | $53 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $78 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $222 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $146 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $165 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $59 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $72 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $270 |
Price history
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.15 input / $0.60 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 VL 30B A3B Instruct
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Hunyuan A13B Instruct (Tencent) at $0.441 blended, 5% less.
- Next more expensive: Saba (Mistral) at $0.48 blended, 3% more.
Other models from Alibaba
The 8 nearest to Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct in price, of 41 other Alibaba models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Qwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 / $0.47
- Qwen3 30B A3B: $0.12 / $0.50
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: $0.36 / $0.40
- Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507: $0.09 / $0.55
- Qwen3 Coder Next: $0.12 / $0.80
- Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct: $0.25 / $0.75
- Qwen-Plus: $0.26 / $0.78
- Qwen3.6 35B A3B: $0.10 / $0.95
All 42 Alibaba models and prices
Common questions about Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pricing
- How much does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cost?
- Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens at DeepInfra, the host whose rate we quote. DeepInfra 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 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
- The price we quote is already the cheapest of the 3 hosts: DeepInfra at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, SiliconFlow, charges 1.7x the cheapest. Host rates as listed on 2026-10-22.
- Does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct offer batch or cached pricing?
- No. Neither a batch rate nor a prompt-cache rate is published for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct as of 2026-10-22.
- What would Qwen3 VL 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 $53 on Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct at the list price quoted on 2026-10-22.
- Can Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct be self-hosted?
- Yes. Qwen3 VL 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 VL 30B A3B Instruct changed?
- Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct entered our daily price archive on 2026-10-18; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.15 input / $0.60 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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