Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 262K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct sits on price
At $0.28 per million output tokens, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is a budget tier model — 7.4× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 89% and pricier than 11% of the models we track. It sits 9th cheapest of the 53 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output costs 4.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.28/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $202 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $2.31 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0004 | $105 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct with caching and batch options.
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct price history
Alibaba (Qwen) last raised Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's output price on Aug 11, 2026 (+4% per output token), from $0.07/$0.27 to $0.07/$0.28 per 1M in/out. That is one of 2 repricings in the 44 days we have tracked it — worth knowing before you hard-code today's rate into a budget.
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M | Output change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2026 (tracking began) | $0.07 | $0.28 | — |
| Aug 4, 2026 | $0.07 | $0.27 | -4% |
| Aug 11, 2026 | $0.07 | $0.28 | +4% |
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct vs Gemma 4 26B A4B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 7% more expensive on output, with $0.02 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Gemma 4 26B A4B pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct API cost?
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 3,571,429 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $202 per month on Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct. Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's 262K context window?
Sending 262K of input in a single request costs $0.0184 at $0.07 per million tokens — before any output. There is no cached-input tier on this model, so every repeat of that context is billed at full price. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct worth the price?
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 89% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.