Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructQwen3-VL 30B A3B Instruct is the mid-size Mixture-of-Experts, non-thinking edition of Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3-VL vision-language family, activating about 3 billion parameters per token. Alibaba positions it for fast responses with upgraded image and video understanding, long videos and documents, spatial awareness, object recognition, multilingual OCR and visual agents that operate GUIs. It sits between Qwen3-VL 8B and 235B A22B in size and capability.
- Input price
- $0.13USD / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.52USD / 1M tokens
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
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Specifications
Pricing
- Input
- $0.13 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.52 / 1M tokens
Context & modalities
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
Capabilities
- Chat
- Supported
- Vision
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Supported
- Function calling
- Supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model ID
- alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct
- Execution
- sync
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Chat Completions API
- Endpoint
- /v1/chat/completions
Independent evaluations
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations, compared with other models on SandBase.
Metrics sourced from Artificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3
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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello"
}
],
"max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructThis model Alibaba | 128K | $0.13 | $0.52 | Oct 6, 2025 |
Alibaba | 1M | $4.00 | $12.00 | Sep 23, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | Sep 18, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Sep 3, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 | Aug 14, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Aug 12, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
How much does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cost?
$0.13 per 1M input tokens and $0.52 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.
What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?
131.1K tokens of context, with up to 32.8K output tokens per response.
How does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct score on benchmarks?
Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct scores 7.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v4.3), ranking #78 of 84 models on SandBase. Source: Artificial Analysis, measured as Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct.
Which features does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct support?
Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct supports vision (image input), function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.
Do I need a separate Alibaba account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.