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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Pricing

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct from Qwen costs $0.130 per 1 million input tokens and $0.520 per 1 million output tokens as of June 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 262,144-token context window (approximately 196,608 words) with a 33K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0001 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0013.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.130 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.520 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio4.0×
Context window262,144 tokens (~196,608 words)
Maximum output32,768 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0001
TierFast
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Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.130

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.520

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

262K tokens

max 33K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.000173$0.000208
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000433$0.00052
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.00065$0.00078
100K token document100,000$0.013$0.0156

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Extremely cheap at $0.130/1M input tokens
  • Large 262K-token context window
  • Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • Multimodal: understands images as well as text

Limitations

  • Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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