Qwen3 30B-A3B

API ID qwen3-30b-a3b

qwen3-30b-a3b was a Qwen model, released April 2025.

Status: Retired
Released: April 2025
Shutdown: Oct 10, 2026
Replacement: Qwen3.7 Plusqwen3.7-plus

qwen3-30b-a3b stopped serving on October 10, 2026. Recommended replacement: qwen3.7-plus.

How to migrate to Qwen3.7 Plus

Benchmarks

Scores as each source published them

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Arena

Arena	Qwen3 30B-A3B	Rank	Date	Source
Text By category Math 1352 rank 214 Creative writing 1284 rank 259 Instruction following 1309 rank 254 Hard prompts 1344 rank 240 Long prompts 1338 rank 237 Multi-turn 1319 rank 251 Expert 1343 rank 227	1327 ±5	249 of 415 26,154 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source
Text: Coding	1385 ±9	229 of 410 4,504 votes	Oct 13, 2026	source

Rated as qwen3-30b-a3b. Ratings come from people voting between two anonymous answers; Text is style-controlled, as on arena.ai. Data: Arena (arena.ai), CC BY 4.0.

Epoch AI

Benchmark	Qwen3 30B-A3B	Setting	Run	Source
GPQA Diamond Other settings 50.4% no reasoning	61.7%		Aug 30, 2026	source
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 Other settings 25.6% no reasoning	62.8%		Aug 28, 2026	source

Run independently by Epoch AI. Data: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (epoch.ai/benchmarks), CC BY.

Price history

USD per 1M tokens, standard tier

We started recording this model's prices on Oct 5, 2026. The history grows with each daily check.

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From	Type	Price
Oct 5, 2026	Input	$0.20
Oct 5, 2026	Output	$0.80

Prices

USD per 1M tokens, every type and band, by tier

Type	Price $/1M	In effect
Standard
input	$0.20
output	$0.80

Changelog

Changes we detected on Qwen's pages

Oct 12, 2026
Retired
qwen3-30b-a3b has been retired
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Oct 8, 2026
Feature changed
qwen3-30b-a3b: Function calling not supported → not supported (supported in the Beijing region only)
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Last checked Oct 15, 2026, 2:00 am ET · Sources: Qwen models, Qwen deprecations, Qwen free terms