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Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

Qwen Apache 2.0 out 15 months ago

30.5B parameters, 3B active (8 of 128 experts per token), text in, text out, 256K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #253 in LLMs · score 85.8 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 50.7k · #381 of 619 tracked

Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?50.7kdownloads, 30 days#381 of 619 we track · below the median+2 likes, downloads −6% this week388 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 19 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 490 HN pts

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019.

  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com 2025-08-10 490 HN pts · 97 comments 5.2k words about the Qwen3 family family

19 best of 19 tracked

The 3 picks above, plus these 16. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleQwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai · 2026-02-03 · official
  2. ArticleQwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai · 2026-01-26 · official
  3. ArticleQwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai · 2026-01-22 · official
  4. ArticleQwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleQwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official
  6. ArticleQwen3-Nextqwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · official
  7. ArticleQwen3-VLqwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official
  8. CodeQwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com · 2025-09-22
  9. PaperQwen3 Technical Reportarxiv.org · undated
  10. ArticleQwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) vs Llama 3.1 Instruct 70Bartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  11. ArticleQwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 - API, Specs, Playground & Pricing - Puter Developerdeveloper.puter.com · undated
  12. ArticleQwen3 30B-A3B Thinking (2507) Pricing, Context & Capabilities | TheRouter.aitherouter.ai · undated
  13. ArticleQwen 3 30B A3B Thinking 2507: Specifications & Sourcesgradually.ai · undated
  14. DiscussionQwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507twitter.com · 2025-07-30 · 2 HN pts
  15. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B Deep Dive: How 128 Experts Achieve Frontier Performance at 10% Active Parameters | Pavel Nasovich's Blogforcewake.me · 2025-08-07
  16. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Reasoning Model In-Depth Review - DEV Communitydev.to · 2025-07-31

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 74 quantized builds and 21 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware74quantized builds
  • Built on6745 fine-tunes · 10 adapters · 12 merges
  • In apps21Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: MCP-1st-Birthday/vibe-reader ♥ 2 · JunsWan/HardcoreLogic ♥ 1 · hf-skills/hf-jobs ♥ 1 · build-small-hackathon/one-red-paperclip ♥ 1

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory) at INT4

About 18 GB at INT4, 37 GB at FP8, 73 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT418 GBFP8: about 37 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP837 GBBF16: about 73 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1673 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 18 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT418 GBFP8: about 37 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP837 GBBF16: about 73 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1673 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2025-07-29), amber triangles are 4 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-08-17: 1 repo commit2025-08-08: 1 repo commit2025-07-30: 7 repo commits2025-07-29: 3 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 · 2025-07-30Weights 2025-07-29 · 2025-07-29Weights 2025-07-29now
MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-08-17: 1 repo commit2025-08-08: 1 repo commit2025-07-30: 7 repo commits2025-07-29: 3 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 · 2025-07-30Weights 2025-07-29 · 2025-07-29Weights 2025-07-29now

What people built on it

141 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

141 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

74 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)45 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)12 merges (Hugging Face model tree)10 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)74 quantized45 fine-tunes12 merges10 adapters
74 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)45 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)12 merges (Hugging Face model tree)10 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)74 quantized45 fine-tunes12 merges10 adapters

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

21 rows

Benchmarks 21 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (21)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AIME 2025 · Reason through hard problems85 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Arena-Hard · Chat and follow instructions56 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported BFCL · Call tools and APIs72.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported CFEval2044—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Creative Writing · Chat and follow instructions84.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Creative Writing · Chat and follow instructions85 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported GPQA Diamond · Reason through hard problems73.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported HMMT · Reason through hard problems71.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported IFEval · Chat and follow instructions88.9 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported LiveBench · Reason through hard problems76.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported LiveCodeBench · Write code with agents66 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU · Reason through hard problems91.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MMLU-Pro · Reason through hard problems80.9 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Multi-IF · Chat and follow instructions76.4 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported OJBench25.1—model author2026-10-07
author-reported SuperGPQA · Reason through hard problems56.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported TAU1-Airline48 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported TAU1-Retail67.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported tau-bench · Call tools and APIs58.8 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported tau-bench · Call tools and APIs58 percent—model author2026-10-07
author-reported tau-bench · Call tools and APIs26.3 percent—model author2026-10-07

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

It features a native context length of 262,144 tokens and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.[1][2]

  1. “262,144 natively”
  2. license

Generated 2026-10-07 15:05 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

24 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3MoeForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3_moe
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 30,532,122,624
Size bandL
MoEyes
Experts128
Experts per token8
Context length262,144 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2402.17463, arXiv:2407.02490, arXiv:2501.15383, arXiv:2404.06654, arXiv:2505.09388
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen3MoeForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen3MoeForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)73 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)37 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)18 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen3 141 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 74finetune: 45merge: 12adapter: 10

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
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Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 149 1.7M
cyankiwi/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-AWQ-4bit quantized AWQ 5.31B M apache-2.0 cyankiwi 16 1M
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 Qwen 73 602.3k
QuantTrio/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-AWQ quantized AWQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 QuantTrio 4 202.9k
miromind-ai/MiroThinker-v1.5-30B finetune — 30.5B L mit miromind-ai 245 110.6k
bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — bartowski 14 61.4k
Mungert/MiroThinker-v1.5-30B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit Mungert 1 39.9k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 1 27.3k
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 unsloth 13 21.2k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 30.5B L apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 2 20.5k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 30.5B L apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 0 18.8k
Mungert/MiroThinker-v1.0-30B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit Mungert 4 15.6k
NVFP4/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP4 quantized — 15.6B L apache-2.0 NVFP4 5 15.1k
amd/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-FP8 quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 amd 1 13.8k
amd/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-PTPC-FP8 quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 amd 1 13.7k
NousResearch/nomos-1 finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 NousResearch 157 5.5k
huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-abliterated finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 huihui-ai 24 11.9k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 30.5B L apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 2 12.4k
mradermacher/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 2 11k
Intel/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-int4-AutoRound quantized int4 635M S apache-2.0 Intel 11 10.6k
cyankiwi/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-AWQ-8bit quantized AWQ 9.04B L apache-2.0 cyankiwi 2 9.6k
Orion-zhen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — Orion-zhen 0 8.2k
ubergarm/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 ubergarm 11 7.5k
QuantTrio/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-AWQ-BF16Mix quantized AWQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 QuantTrio 5 7.2k
geoffmunn/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 geoffmunn 2 6.5k
miromind-ai/MiroThinker-v1.0-30B finetune — 30.5B L mit miromind-ai 54 3.1k
QuantTrio/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GPTQ-Int8 quantized GPTQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 QuantTrio 2 4.8k
mradermacher/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 0 4.4k
mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-4bit quantized -4bit 30.5B L apache-2.0 mlx-community 5 3.7k
gaianet/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 gaianet 1 3.7k
OpenMOSS-Team/SciThinker-30B finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 OpenMOSS-Team 17 2.6k
Orion-zhen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-1M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — gpl-3.0 Orion-zhen 0 3.2k
tensorblock/Qwen_Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 tensorblock 0 3k
Face314/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-MXFP4_MOE quantized GGUF — — — Face314 2 2.8k
prefeitura-rio/Rio-2.5-Open finetune — 30.5B L mit prefeitura-rio 6 2.4k
PolarSeeker/OpenSeeker-v1-30B-SFT finetune — 30.5B L mit PolarSeeker 13 1.8k
second-state/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 second-state 0 2.3k
ggml-org/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-Q8_0-GGUF quantized Q8_0 — — apache-2.0 ggml-org 0 2.2k
Intel/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-gguf-q2ks-mixed-AutoRound quantized gguf — — apache-2.0 Intel 6 1.7k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-quantized.w4a16 quantized -quant 4.59B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 0 2k

Repository changelog

12 commits

Repository changelog 12 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-08-17 Update README.md 144afc2
2025-08-08 Add 1M support (#4) 328ebc6
2025-07-30 Update README.md 4a8a164
2025-07-30 Create LICENSE 2b4ed9b
2025-07-30 Update README.md 4f91add
2025-07-30 Update README.md d0e11b7
2025-07-30 Update README.md 0fb452a
2025-07-30 Update README.md 062a9c4
2025-07-30 Update generation_config.json 5ed2448
2025-07-29 Update README.md 7d0ce72
2025-07-29 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 077728b
2025-07-29 initial commit bdfdc09

Articles and coverage

19 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official1

qwenlm.github.io2025-04-28officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 869 pts · 388 comments2,139 words
Qwen3 introduces Hybrid Thinking Modes, allowing users to toggle between step-by-step reasoning and rapid responses via computational budget control. The open-weight MoE model Qwen3-235B-A22B achieves performance similar to dense models while using only 10% of the active parameters. Pre-training utilized approximately 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages, with deployment supported by SGLang and vLLM.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-14B models do not use tied embeddings, unlike smaller variants.
  • The pre-training pipeline includes a final stage extending context length to 32K tokens.

Analysis8

venturebeat.com2026-02-28HN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 461 pts · 272 comments
magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-10authorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 490 pts · 97 comments5,195 words
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. The 20B model can run on a consumer GPU with up to 16 GB of RAM, and the 120B model can run on a single H100 with 80 GB of RAM or newer hardware. The models utilize MXFP4 optimization to fit onto single GPUs.written, reviewed, cited
  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
arxiv.orgauthorityabout the Qwen3 family
artificialanalysis.aiauthority
aicodingtools.blog
developer.puter.com
therouter.ai
gradually.ai

Community1

twitter.com2025-07-30HN 2 pts · 0 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (19) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen3 Technical Reportarxiv.org—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) vs Llama 3.1 Instruct 70Bartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Reasoning Model In-Depth Review | AI Coding Tools Docsaicodingtools.blog—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507 - API, Specs, Playground & Pricing - Puter Developerdeveloper.puter.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 30B-A3B Thinking (2507) Pricing, Context & Capabilities | TheRouter.aitherouter.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen 3 30B A3B Thinking 2507: Specifications & Sourcesgradually.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computersventurebeat.com2026-02-282026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai official2026-02-032026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai official2026-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai official2026-01-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-VLqwen.ai official2025-09-232026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com2025-09-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Nextqwen.ai official2025-09-122026-10-07hn
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
Qwen3-30B-A3B Deep Dive: How 128 Experts Achieve Frontier Performance at 10% Active Parameters | Pavel Nasovich's Blogforcewake.me2025-08-072026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Reasoning Model In-Depth Review - DEV Communitydev.to2025-07-312026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507twitter.com2025-07-302026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io official2025-07-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io official2025-04-282026-10-07hn

Papers

5 papers

Papers 5

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