Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B

Code-specialized 30.5B MoE with 3.3B active across 128 experts, small enough to run on consumer hardware for code generation and agentic coding.

Params: 30.5B, 3.3B active
Context: 262K tokens
Max output: 66K
License: Apache 2.0

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.45 /1M
Output: $2.25 /1M
Cheapest: $0.06 / $0.25 via Lyceum
Hosted by: 4 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cached input /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Lyceum Cheapest	$0.06	$0.25	$0.01	$1.10	Visit website
Novita	$0.07	$0.27		$1.24	Visit website
EcoHash	$0.10	$0.30	$0.05	$1.60	Visit website
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$0.45	$2.25		$9.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B needs about 20 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 2× RTX 4060 Ti at about $187 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 250M tokens a month on Alibaba Cloud's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 262K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	20 GB32 GB	2× RTX 4060 Ti	$187$374	250M tokens /mo499M tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	36 GB45 GB	4× RTX 3060	$230$374	307M tokens /mo499M tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	66 GB89 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$749	614M tokens /mo998M tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B
Command R7B Cohere	$0.0583	$0.04	$0.15	128K		−36%
Gemma 3 12B Instruct Google Cloud	$0.0583	$0.05	$0.10	128K	Aug 2024	−36%
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	$0.0628	$0.039	$0.182	131K	Jun 2024	−31%
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B Nvidia	$0.075	$0.05	$0.20	262K	Jun 2025	−18%
Llama 3 8B Meta	$0.0833	$0.05	$0.25	8K	Mar 2023	−9%
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.0917	$0.06	$0.25	262K
Llama 3.2 3B Meta	$0.0983	$0.051	$0.335	128K	Dec 2023	+7%
Qwen3-30B-A3B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.0983	$0.051	$0.335	33K		+7%
Ministral 3 3B Mistral	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	256K		+9%
GLM-5.3-Flash Z.AI	$0.1042	$0.075	$0.25	1M		+14%
GPT-5 Nano OpenAI	$0.1083	$0.05	$0.40	400K	May 2024	+18%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

Lium

Built for agents: CLI, SDK and MCP server. Your agent rents and runs GPUs itself.

A permissionless marketplace. 1000+ nodes from independent providers worldwide.

Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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Capabilities

What Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B good for?

Agentic coding and browser-use tool calling on local hardware. Apache 2.0 weights, a 30.5B mixture of experts with 3.3B active, on a single consumer GPU.

When is Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B not a good fit?

Tasks that need a reasoning trace, since it is non-thinking only, and general assistant work, where the lineup's non-Coder models fit. No image or video input, and no built-in web search, though a host or your own tool loop can add one.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Alibaba Cloud charges $0.45 in / $2.25 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 2x RTX 4060 Ti at $187 a month, which costs the same as about 250M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 20 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $187 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.