Qwen 3 VL 30B a3b Instruct API

Alibaba's Qwen 3 VL 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-vl-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-vl-30b-a3b-instruct
Maker: Alibaba
Context window: 262.1K tokens
Input price: $0.150 per million tokens
Output price: $0.599 per million tokens
Providers: 1 independent provider
Regions: us

Providers

Architect: us, $0.150 input and $0.599 output per million tokens, $0.150 cache read per million tokens, 262.1K tokens of context

Scores

HLE: 6.3, #191 of 273
GPQA: 69.5, #153 of 250
Terminal-Bench Hard: 6.1, #140 of 166
LiveCodeBench: 47.6, #56 of 130
AIME 2025: 72.3, #34 of 100
MMLU-Pro: 76.4, #60 of 133
τ²-Bench: 19.0, #152 of 169
IFBench: 33.1, #150 of 178

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

Request

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

Questions

What is Qwen 3 VL 30B a3b Instruct?: Served by intent-router: each job goes to the cheapest healthy upstream for this model.
How much does Qwen 3 VL 30B a3b Instruct cost?: Offers now ask $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.599 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 VL 30B a3b Instruct?: The largest offer takes 262,144 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.
What can Qwen 3 VL 30B a3b Instruct do?: Its providers list Vision, 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 VL 30B a3b Instruct support?: Text · Images → Text.
Which providers serve Qwen 3 VL 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 VL 30B a3b Instruct?: Send "qwen3-vl-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 VL 30B a3b Instruct listed?: The exchange first listed it on 10/8/2026. This is not its release date.