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

> Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B: $0.130/M in, $0.520/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen · released 2025-04-28

 $0.228 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.130 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.520 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1316.9 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...