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title: "Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: $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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# Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: $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 VL 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen · released 2025-10-06

 $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

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 33K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

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

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. It excels in perception...