Qwen3 30B A3B pricing and routing profile
Qwen3 30B A3B from Qwen (Alibaba) lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, with a 131,072-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Tool callingStructured outputReasoning control
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.077 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $0.44 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $1.21 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Qwen3 30B A3B. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Qwen3 30B A3B that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct | $0.117 / $0.455 | 5% |
| Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct | $0.104 / $0.416 | 15% |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 27B | $0.075 / $0.50 | 20% |
| Nemotron 3 Super | $0.08 / $0.45 | 23% |
| Gemma 3 27B | $0.08 / $0.45 | 23% |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | $0.10 / $0.32 | 25% |
Questions
How much does Qwen3 30B A3B cost?
Qwen3 30B A3B lists at $0.12 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.44 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Qwen3 30B A3B?
131,072 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Qwen3 30B A3B?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Qwen3 30B A3B on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.