Models/Qwen/Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning in STEM, math, and complex tasks. It excels...

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Identity

262,144Context in
32,768Context out
2025-10-06 (OpenRouter created 1759794479)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Aliases
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking, Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
Modalities
text, image
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Open

Context window on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: 262,144 tokens.

Max completion tokens on that row: 32,768.

Input / output on that row: $0.20 / $2.40 per 1M tokens.

Architecture fields: text+image->text · Qwen3.

Hugging Face id on that row: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking.

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Should I use this for coding agents

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos.

When you want the 2025-10-06 catalog SKU, not a later rename.

No independent row for this SKU

No independent board lists this exact SKU as of 2026-08-19.

Closest benchmarked sibling: Qwen3.8 Max, 57% ±3% Pass@1 at xhigh on the DeepSWE official board. That is a score for the sibling, not for this SKU.

Boards checked: DeepSWE official (2026-08-13), Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, vals.ai hero index. Every card that does carry a row is on the coding leaderboard.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysis

No Intelligence Index integer fetched for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Index

We did not open a vals.ai card for this identity. Chip omitted.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-19 source
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • When you need a Continuum-hosted SKU from this lab, use the hosted card on this hub instead of this catalog row.
  • $0.20 in / $2.40 out per 1M on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row. Context 262,144 in / 32,768 out.
  • Need a denser published sibling on this hub? Qwen3.8 Max is the card already on the cluster.
  • When the job needs a published DeepSWE, Artificial Analysis, or vals.ai chip: this page does not invent one. Those boards did not list this exact SKU on 2026-08-19.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
apache-2.0
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 31,070,754,032 stored tensors
Native precision
HF tensors BF16
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 62,141,618,016 bytes
HF created
2025-09-30T11:04:13.000Z
Official HF repo
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
HF downloads
68,736
HF likes
200

Official weights id on the 2026-08-19 OpenRouter row: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking. Community GGUF is a quant, not a second Continuum card.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

Hub file tree

Safetensor shards
13
Shard bytes
62,141,618,016 bytes
Other file bytes
11,588,968 bytes
Tree file count
25
Hub usedStorage
62,141,618,016 bytes

usedStorage and the sum of .safetensors sizes can differ (LFS pointers, non-shard files, duplicate copies). Cited separately. Source: recursive tree API, 2026-08-19.

PathBytes
model-00001-of-00013.safetensors4,399,341,032
model-00002-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,880
model-00003-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,888
model-00004-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00005-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00006-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00007-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00008-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00009-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00010-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00011-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00012-of-00013.safetensors4,984,970,928
model-00013-of-00013.safetensors2,907,596,864
tokenizer.json7,032,403
vocab.json2,776,833
merges.txt1,671,839
model.safetensors.index.json80,743
tokenizer_config.json10,781
README.md6,730
chat_template.json5,410
config.json1,661
.gitattributes1,519
preprocessor_config.json390
video_preprocessor_config.json385
generation_config.json274

All 25 files the tree API returned are listed: every one of the 13 safetensor shards plus 12 other files. Files tab: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking/tree/main.

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Continuum serving

OpenRouter slug qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking on the 2026-08-19 catalog.

First party: https://qwen.ai/.

Not on the Continuum host list fetched 2026-08-19.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter 2026-08-19: $0.20 in / $2.40 out per 1M tokens. Context 262,144 in / 32,768 out.

No separate internal-reasoning price on that row.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking.
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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OpenRouter id qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking; context 262144; created 1759794479; $0.20 / $2.40 per 1MOpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
OpenRouter id qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking, context 262,144OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 68,736Hugging Face API Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking2026-08-19
HF safetensors.total: 31,070,754,032 stored tensors; HF API usedStorage 62,141,618,016 bytes; created 2025-09-30T11:04:13.000Z; HF tensors BF16Hugging Face API Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking2026-08-19
13 safetensor shards; shard bytes 62,141,618,016; tree files 25Hugging Face tree API Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Qwen's model family with Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct.

FAQ

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking.

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