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Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

Model weights

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 of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.15 / $0.60per 1M
Context
262K
Released
Oct 6, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Mar 2025

Providers

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Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input
$0.1601/M tokens
Output
$0.6211/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput
41tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.48s

P50, best provider

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.10%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.10%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.81%
Without Routing
97.92%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (Artificial Analysis)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct GPQA Diamond69.5%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct HLE6.3%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct IFBench33.1%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct τ²-Bench Telecom19.0%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct CritPt0.0%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct LiveCodeBench47.6%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Terminal-Bench Hard6.1%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct MMLU-Pro76.4%
Artificial AnalysisQwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct AIME 202572.3%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

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13.6Btokens
2.
1.86Btokens
3.
1.54Btokens
Rest of OpenRouter
369M
Top 5 Apps
65.4M

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs

Frequently asked questions