Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct provider comparison

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception...

Endpoints:: 5
Context:: 262.1K
Input:: text, image
Output:: text

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At a glance

Comparison winners

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.

Best cost/speed trade-off

Alibaba Cloud Int.alibaba

$0.26 / 1M tokens

13.63 s estimated response

Cheapest

Alibaba Cloud Int.alibaba

$0.26 / 1M tokens

$0.00039 for the sample request

Fastest

Alibaba Cloud Int.alibaba

13.63 s estimated response

$0.26 / 1M tokens

Visual comparison

Price and performance charts

Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.

Effective price by endpoint

USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.

Alibaba Cloud Int. has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.00039.

Estimated cost vs. response time

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.

5 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Alibaba Cloud Int. is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.

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Provider endpoints

Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.

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Endpoint comparison for Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
Provider / route	Current pricing ↗	Speed measurements	Endpoint details
Provider / route Alibaba Cloud Int.`alibaba` CheapestFastestBest cost/speed trade-off	Current pricing Input price $0.13 / 1M tokens Output price $0.52 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.00039 Discount 35.0%	Speed measurements 500-token response 13.63 s Response starts 0.47 s Output speed 38.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 100.00% Context 131.1K Model format unknown Max output 32.8K 11 parameters logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, response_format, seed, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_logprobs, top_p
Provider / route DeepInfra`deepinfra/fp8`	Current pricing Input price $0.15 / 1M tokens Output price $0.6 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.00045	Speed measurements 500-token response 19.57 s Response starts 0.34 s Output speed 26.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.57% Context 262.1K Model format fp8 Max output 16.4K 15 parameters frequency_penalty, logit_bias, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p
Provider / route NovitaAI`novita/bf16`	Current pricing Input price $0.2 / 1M tokens Output price $0.7 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.00055	Speed measurements 500-token response 23.52 s Response starts 0.79 s Output speed 22.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 97.38% Context 131.1K Model format bf16 Max output 32.8K 15 parameters frequency_penalty, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p
Provider / route Phala`phala`	Current pricing Input price $0.2 / 1M tokens Output price $0.7 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.00055	Speed measurements 500-token response 27.55 s Response starts 1.24 s Output speed 19.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 96.66% Context 128K Model format unknown Max output 32.8K 14 parameters frequency_penalty, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p
Provider / route SiliconFlow`siliconflow/fp8`	Current pricing Input price $0.29 / 1M tokens Output price $1 / 1M tokens Sample cost $0.00079	Speed measurements 500-token response 52.43 s Response starts 2.43 s Output speed 10.0 tok/s	Endpoint details Uptime (30 min) 99.23% Context 262.1K Model format fp8 Max output 262.1K 9 parameters frequency_penalty, max_tokens, response_format, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p

Endpoint data fetched Jul 15, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC.

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct deployment guide

How to choose a Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct inference provider

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is indexed here as a text model by Qwen, with 5 provider endpoints from Alibaba Cloud Int., DeepInfra, NovitaAI, Phala, SiliconFlow. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.

Match the endpoint to the workload

The model publishes a 262.1K-token context window. It accepts text, image input and returns text output. 17 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.

Compare the real request economics

Alibaba Cloud Int. currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.00039. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.

Balance response start and generation speed

Alibaba Cloud Int. currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 13.63 seconds. Alibaba Cloud Int. is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.