# Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct API

Alibaba's Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct, through an OpenAI-compatible API. Providers quote it on an open exchange, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.

- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.

## Facts

- Model name: qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
- Maker: Alibaba
- Context window: 128K tokens
- Input price: $0.100 per million tokens
- Output price: $0.400 per million tokens
- Providers: 1 independent provider
- Regions: us

## Providers

- [Architect](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/805445a7-0e40-4c1b-9baf-7b3b01e30e42.md): us, $0.100 input and $0.400 output per million tokens, $0.100 cache read per million tokens, 128K tokens of context

## Scores

- HLE: 3.8, #246 of 273
- GPQA: 51.6, #206 of 250
- AA-LCR: 32.7, #191 of 237
- Terminal-Bench Hard: 15.2, #110 of 166
- LiveCodeBench: 40.3, #68 of 130
- AIME 2025: 29.0, #73 of 100
- MMLU-Pro: 70.6, #90 of 133
- τ²-Bench: 34.5, #127 of 169
- IFBench: 32.7, #154 of 178

Scores: Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai/)

## Request

```sh
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
  }'
```

## Questions

### What is Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct?

Served by intent-router: each job goes to the cheapest healthy upstream for this model.

### How much does Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct cost?

Offers now ask $0.100 per million input tokens and $0.400 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.

### What is the context length of Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct?

The largest offer takes 128,000 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.

### What can Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct do?

Its providers list Reasoning effort, JSON object, JSON schema, Frequency penalty, Logit bias, Log probabilities, Min-p sampling, Presence penalty, Repetition penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-k sampling, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.

### What inputs and outputs does Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct support?

Text → Text.

### Which providers serve Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct?

1 independent provider quote it now, with 1 offer. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.

### How do I call Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct?

Send "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.

### When was Qwen 3 Coder 30B a3b Instruct listed?

The exchange first listed it on 10/8/2026. This is not its release date.

## Related pages

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