Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
PaidTool callingVision inputReasoning
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Price Published
- Input
- $0.20 per million tokens
- Output
- $2.40 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 31, 2025
- Listed since
- Oct 6, 2025
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About this model OpenRouter description
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...
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