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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Official publisher releaseOpen weights6.9d #116 → #122

Qwen·#122 of 352 on the current board·cheaper than #119 Step 3.7 Flash

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is a language model from Qwen. It ranks #122 of 352 on ModelCap's current board, with an Index score of 52.1, modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models. Its score range of 44.7–59.6 spans positions #87–#147. It is listed at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens across 2 providers. It reads up to 262K tokens of context, and its weights are openly downloadable.

Figures as of 6 Nov 2026, 20:32 UTC · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
52.1#122
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models · range 44.7–59.6
Market Gravity
33.9Increased by 0.2
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.15
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.60
per 1M tokens
Context
262K
tokens
Providers
2
endpoints

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
SiliconFlowfp8Cheapest$0.07$0.28262Kfp8100.0%
Amazon Bedrockus-west-2$0.15$0.60262K—100.0%

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
52.1
Modeled from the publisher's launch results against measured models
Current board
#122 of 352
Score range
44.7–59.6
Rank range
#87–#147
Technical details
Public rank basis
Modeled · peer benchmarks (architecture)
Evidence label
Modeled · peer benchmarks · publisher-corpus-prior over 210 held-out anchors (6%); launch card against 3 resolved peers on 4 rows (94%); no cross-lab optimism probe available; shrunk 0.1 toward the measured corpus
Index support
26.0% · limited
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · qwen/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct@b2cff646eb4bb1d68355c01b18ae02e7cf42d120 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
0
Qualified Index evidence point
52.1
How this position was produced · fused launch placement

No general-family board lists this model yet. Its point estimate is the precision-weighted mean of every channel that spoke for it; each channel’s share is the weight it carried. Independent measurements replace this placement as boards list the model.

Fused estimate
52.1 ± 5.8
Independent share
0%
Shrink toward corpus
-0.1
Peer ceiling share
0%
Optimism haircut
None applied
Method
precision-weighted-v1
Channels fused into this model’s launch placement
ChannelEstimateShare
Publisher corpus prior · not independent
publisher-corpus-prior over 210 held-out anchors
51.0 ± 23.86%
Launch card against resolved peers · not independent
launch card against 3 resolved peers on 4 rows
52.2 ± 6.094%
  • · Launch card row bfcl-v-3: claims below every resolved peer
  • · Launch card row swe-bench-live: inside the resolved peer range
  • · Launch card row swe-bench-multilingual: inside the resolved peer range
  • · Launch card row tau-bench-airline: inside the resolved peer range
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
—
Evidence status
No admitted measured evidence
General preference
—
Coding
—
Agents & tools
—
Reasoning
—
Evidence breadth
0%
Evidence coverage
0%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
13.9
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
55.0
Open reach (HF downloads)
77.9
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
50.3
Freshness
17.1
  • · OpenRouter popularity #151
  • · 2 live providers
  • · HF 30d downloads 1410387
  • · Catalogue: context 262144, tools
  • · First seen 2025-07-31

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Experimental capability estimate

Estimate policy
39.0
25.4–52.6 uncertainty interval
Excluded from rank
Confidence
80%
Training support
221 models · 129 lineages
Out-of-domain check
in domain
Feature coverage
100%
Lineage-held-out error
8.3 MAE

Experimental estimate. This layer predicts from admitted evidence and safe metadata only. It never enters ModelCap Score or rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
72.5
partial · 76% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
85.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
90.0
Evaluation provenance
0.0

Not yet published: the base model it derives from, admitted benchmark results, results across several capability areas, results from more than one source, a confident match to its benchmark entries, pinned evaluation dataset versions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
33.9
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#151 of 339

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

No matched Arena rating

This model is visible because it is available in the live catalogue, but it has no trustworthy community result yet. ModelCap does not infer a quality score from price, features, or market activity.

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
13.9

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
55.0

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
77.9

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
17.1

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Model ID
qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
Context window
262K tokens
Declared output cap
236K tokens

OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. OpenRouter metadata

Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
31 Jul 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2025-06-30

Capabilities

  • Not supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
apache-2.0
Pinned revision
b2cff646eb4b
Parameters
30.5B
Architecture
Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Model type
qwen3_moe
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
1.4M
Downloads (all time)
17.0M
Likes
1K
Repository updated
3 Dec 2025, 08:05 UTC

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Ranked neighbours

Models within 3 places of #122 on the ModelCap Index.

Cheaper at a similar or higher Index

Index score within 3 points of, or above, this model's, with a lower listed blended price (3:1 input:output).

Other ranked Qwen models

The same publisher's other current models with a public Index position.

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: common questions

How does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct rank among AI models?

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct holds ModelCap Index position #122 of 352 ranked language models as of 6 November 2026, with an Index score of 52.1 (interval 44.7–59.6); evidence: modeled · peer benchmarks. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is listed at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens as of 6 November 2026; the lowest output price among 2 providers is $0.28 on SiliconFlow. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $0.60 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct has a published context window of 262K tokens (262,144). The snapshot lists a 235,929 token catalogue-declared route output cap. OpenRouter catalogue or provider-endpoint declaration. Limits can vary by provider and prompt length; a model-wide maximum has not been independently verified. The providers table lists each endpoint's context limit.

Is Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct open-weight?

Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?

2 providers serve Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct through OpenRouter as of 6 November 2026: SiliconFlow and Amazon Bedrock. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct been evaluated on?

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's Index position rests on the evidence listed on this page; it has no result on the public boards ModelCap tracks as separate leaderboards as of 6 November 2026. The evidence panel names each source and its publication date.

When was Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct released?

Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct first appeared in the catalogue on 31 Jul 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2025-06-30. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.