Best cost/speed trade-off
Alibaba Cloud Int.
alibaba$0.6067 / 1M tokens
4.60 s estimated response
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking provider comparison
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning in STEM, math, and complex tasks. It excels...
- Endpoints:
- 2
- Context:
- 131.1K
- Input:
- text, image
- Output:
- text
At a glance
Comparison winners
Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.
Cheapest
SiliconFlow
siliconflow/fp8$0.5267 / 1M tokens
$0.00079 for the sample request
Fastest
Alibaba Cloud Int.
alibaba4.60 s estimated response
$0.6067 / 1M tokens
Visual comparison
Price and performance charts
Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.
USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.
SiliconFlow has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.00079.
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.
2 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Alibaba Cloud Int. is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.
Server-rendered comparison
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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| Provider / route | Current pricing ↗ | Speed measurements | Endpoint details |
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| Provider / route | Current pricing
| Speed measurements
| Endpoint details
13 parametersinclude_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, response_format, seed, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_logprobs, top_p |
| Provider / route | Current pricing
| Speed measurements
| Endpoint details
11 parametersfrequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, response_format, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p |
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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking deployment guide
How to choose a Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking inference provider
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking is indexed here as a text model by Qwen, with 2 provider endpoints from Alibaba Cloud Int., 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 131.1K-token context window. It accepts text, image input and returns text output. 15 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
SiliconFlow currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.00079. 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 4.60 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.