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| Attribute | Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba Cloud / Qwen |
|---|---|
| Summary | A highly efficient open Qwen3 MoE model that activates only a small portion of its parameters. |
| Best for | Efficient local agents, coding, multilingual chat |
| Watch out for | Smaller active capacity limits performance on the hardest tasks. |
| Family | Qwen3 |
| Type | Reasoning LLM |
| Status | Open weights |
| Released | 2025-04-29 |
| Context window | 131.1K |
| Max output | 32.8K |
| Inputs | Text |
| Outputs | Text |
| Reasoning | Yes — thinking or non-thinking |
| Tool calling | Yes / host dependent |
| Structured output | Host dependent |
| API available | Yes and self-hosted |
| Open weights | Yes |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| Price | See provider pricing |