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Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3's efficient MoE: 30B total, 3B active, Apache-2.0.

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Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 is Alibaba's efficient mixture-of-experts model: 30.5B total parameters with only 3B active per token (128 experts, top-8 routing) — near-30B quality at 3B inference cost. 256K-token context (1M variant configs exist), hybrid thinking/non-thinking modes, 128K+ tokenizer. Apache-2.0 licensed, not gated, 998k HF downloads. It's the efficiency sweet spot of the Qwen3 generation: runs on a single high-end GPU while punching well above its active-parameter count.

Specs

Context window

256K tokens (1M variant available)

Pricing

Self-host: free (Apache-2.0). Hosted inference via many providers — per-token pricing varies; check live provider pages.

Free quota

No official free API; self-hosting is free.

API access

Self-host (Transformers, vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp) or hosted inference APIs.

Weights

Open weights

Released

July 28, 2025

Benchmarks

Provider-reported (Alibaba, Jul 2025): strong vs larger dense models on MMLU, HumanEval, MATH at 3B active — provider-reported.

Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.

Use cases

chatcodingagentsefficiency

Trust score — 8/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF downloads 998,093 (peer-normalized); released 442 days ago. Manual review: efficient MoE (30B total, 3B active, 256K), 998k dl; 2507 naming is confusing (multiple variants). License: Apache-2.0.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.8/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
5.0/10
Openness · license + docs
10.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
9.0/10
  • · HF downloads 998,093 (peer-normalized)
  • · released 442 days ago
  • · manual review: efficient MoE (30B total, 3B active, 256K), 998k dl; 2507 naming is confusing (multiple variants)

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