MODEL PROOF
Qwen3 30B A3B
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash · Δ score 145.9 points · 15% lower measured price · $0.182 / 1M tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is a further stored option with these losses: no extended reasoning
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,316.6 ± 4.72 · 26,037 votes
- Context window
- 131.07K
- Maximum output
- 16.38K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.120 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.500 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DeepInfra: 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.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.120/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.500/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 $0.120/M from DeepInfra.
2 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.120 | $0.500 | fp8 | 99.98% |
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.130 | $0.520 | undeclared | 99.85% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1316.6default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Data visualisation #112 974
- UI components #114 952
- Code categories #121 946
- Game development #123 911
- Websites #124 961
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 131K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
Qwen3, the latest generation in the Qwen large language model series, features both dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures to excel in reasoning, multilingual support, and advanced agent tasks. Its unique...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3 30B A3B cost?
$0.120/M in, $0.500/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 have an independent quality score?
Qwen3 30B A3B has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3 30B A3B?
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3 30B A3B?
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 endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.120/M from DeepInfra.
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