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# Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507: $0.090/M in, $0.300/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements.

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MODEL PROOF

# Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

Qwen · 29 Jul 2025

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

BETTER VALUE OPTION

## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

 **$0.143** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Serving precision differs between offers.

[Gemma 4 26B A4B](/models/google__gemma-4-26b-a4b-it/) · Δ score 49.8 points · 11% lower measured price · $0.127 / 1M tokens

[Qwen3.5-Flash](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-flash-02-23/) is a further stored option with these losses: 236K → 66K max output

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,384.1 ± 4.89 · 23,174 votes
 Context window 262.14K
 Maximum output 235.93K
 Input modalities text
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.090 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $0.300 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from SiliconFlow: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.

Cheaper right now: $0.084/M at StreamLake — promotion 55% · precision not disclosed It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.090 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.300 /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.090/M from SiliconFlow.

 5 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller StreamLake streamlake Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 32,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount 55% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.31% | Input $0.048 | Output $0.193 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.65% |
| Seller SiliconFlow siliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 97.93% | Input $0.090 | Output $0.300 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 98.37% |
| Seller DekaLLM dekallm Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.33% | Input $0.090 | Output $0.300 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 98.84% |
| Seller Nebius nebius/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 97.11% | Input $0.100 | Output $0.300 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 92.10% |
| Seller Alibaba alibaba Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.93% | Input $0.130 | Output $0.520 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.75% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1384.1 default |
| --- | --- |

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 235K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-06-30 |
| Open weights | Unknown |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is a 30.5B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model from Qwen, with 3.3B active parameters per inference. It operates in non-thinking mode and is designed for high-quality instruction following, multilingual understanding, and...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 cost?

$0.090/M in, $0.300/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 have an independent quality score?

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

 What beats Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Is the cheapest Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 endpoint the same product?

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.090/M from SiliconFlow.

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- Where this model appears [spreads](/spreads/)
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- Same vendor [Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking](/models/qwen__qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking/)
- Where this model appears [traps](/traps/)

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