Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
· verified October 13, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index9.6 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2025-07-31
Context window262K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.07 / $0.28 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.07/$0.28 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed July 31, 2025
In one line
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct by Alibaba, measured by Artificial Analysis at 9.6 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use.”
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