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Qwen Apache 2.0 out 18 months ago

30.5B parameters, 3B active (8 of 128 experts per token), text in, text out, 40K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it from $0.12 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #76 in LLMs · score 103.5 method v1 Sources 4 Downloads 30d 1M · #108 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 2 new quantized builds on the Hub (155 in all).2026-10-24 · 1 new quantized build on the Hub (154 in all).2026-10-24

What does it cost?$0.12/1M incheapest of 1DeepInfrafp82026-10-25
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?1Mdownloads, 30 days#108 of 619 we track · top 17%+7 likes, downloads −16% this week973 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 28 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

25 best of 28 tracked

The 3 picks above, plus these 22. 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. CodeQwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5github.com · 2025-09-06 · 347 HN pts
  10. ArticleA 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real timebyteshape.com · 2026-01-06 · 363 HN pts
  11. ArticleQwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 32B (Non-reasoning): Model Comparison | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  12. DiscussionQwen3-30B-A3Btwitter.com · 2025-07-29 · 12 HN pts
  13. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B: Which Version Should You Run Now? | LaoZhang AI Blogblog.laozhang.ai · 2026-05-22
  14. DiscussionQwen3-30B-A3B-2507 and Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 now support up to 1M token contexttwitter.com · 2025-08-08 · 5 HN pts
  15. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Reasoning Model In-Depth Review | AI Coding Tools Docsaicodingtools.blog · undated
  16. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B: Efficient Multimodal MoEapi.emergentmind.com · undated
  17. ArticleQwen3-30B-A3B · Docs · Nextbitnextbit256.com · undated
  18. DiscussionRunning Qwen3-30B-A3B on ARM CPU of Single-Board Computerold.reddit.com · 2025-04-30
  19. ArticleLocal AI agent in 44 lines of code powered by Qwen3 30B A3B Instructrentry.co · 2025-08-15
  20. ArticleSwitching to Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Significantly Improves Local Agenthexeditreality.com · 2025-07-31
  21. DiscussionQwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507twitter.com · 2025-07-30
  22. VideoOpencode with Nemotron-3-Nano vs. Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B vs. GPT-OSS-20B-mxfp4 [video]youtube.com · 2025-12-17

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 DeepInfra $0.12 $0.50 40K fp8 Oct 25

All 1 provider →

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.

Served by 1 API provider; heavily run locally (155 quantized builds); a big base for builders (154 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1DeepInfra
  • On own hardware155quantized builds
  • Built on15479 fine-tunes · 66 adapters · 9 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: Qwen/Qwen3-Demo ♥ 868 · pliny-the-prompter/obliteratus ♥ 621 · ISEEKYAN/megatron_memory_estimator ♥ 35 · aiqtech/LLM-Token-Visual ♥ 24

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.

9 dated articles and 19 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-04-27), amber triangles are 9 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

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

309 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.

155 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)79 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)9 merges (Hugging Face model tree)66 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)155 quantized79 fine-tunes9 merges66 adapters
155 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)79 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)9 merges (Hugging Face model tree)66 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)155 quantized79 fine-tunes9 merges66 adapters

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Reference

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

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 length40,960 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2309.00071, 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: 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

Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base (same organization) Family: Qwen/Qwen3 309 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base

quantized: 155finetune: 79merge: 9adapter: 66

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
MaziyarPanahi/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — MaziyarPanahi 6 3.4M
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GPTQ-Int4 quantized GPTQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 Qwen 64 3.3M
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8 quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 Qwen 95 2.7M
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 292 2.4M
mlabonne/Qwen3-30B-A3B-abliterated finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 mlabonne 45 1.7M
ELVISIO/Qwen3-30B-A3B-AWQ quantized AWQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 ELVISIO 4 1.2M
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Qwen 85 847.8k
nvidia/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 15.6B L apache-2.0 nvidia 41 846.7k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 30.5B L apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 26 373.7k
nytopop/Qwen3-30B-A3B.w8a8 quantized — 30.6B L apache-2.0 nytopop 2 361.7k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 30.5B L apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 9 356.7k
mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-4bit quantized -4bit 30.5B L apache-2.0 mlx-community 16 297.9k
bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 bartowski 60 263.3k
BCCard/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-Dynamic quantized -FP8 30.6B L apache-2.0 BCCard 0 250.4k
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 31.5B L — unsloth 22 243.7k
QuixiAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-AWQ quantized AWQ 30.5B L apache-2.0 QuixiAI 13 243.6k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 17.5B L apache-2.0 RedHatAI 3 222.2k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-dynamic quantized -FP8 30.6B L apache-2.0 RedHatAI 3 207.1k
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 lmstudio-community 26 193.1k
DavidAU/Qwen3-128k-30B-A3B-NEO-MAX-Imatrix-gguf quantized Imatrix — — apache-2.0 DavidAU 38 153.8k
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B-128K-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 unsloth 60 142.7k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-quantized.w4a16 quantized -quant 30.5B L apache-2.0 RedHatAI 7 129.8k
RedHatAI/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block quantized -FP8 30.5B L apache-2.0 RedHatAI 0 121.1k
mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-8bit quantized -8bit 30.5B L apache-2.0 mlx-community 8 100.7k
unsloth/Qwen3-30B-A3B finetune — 30.5B L — unsloth 20 86.3k
inference-optimization/Qwen3-1.6B-A0.9B finetune — 1.57B S mit inference-optimization 4 48.8k
AliEdalati97/Qwen3-30B-A3B-MXFP8 quantized — 31.5B L apache-2.0 AliEdalati97 0 43.5k
huihui-ai/Qwen3-30B-A3B-abliterated finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 huihui-ai 68 16.5k
mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-4bit-DWQ quantized -4bit 30.5B L apache-2.0 mlx-community 30 15.6k
Ewere/Qwen3-30B-A3B-abliterated-erotic finetune — 30.5B L apache-2.0 Ewere 61 12.5k
Lucy-in-the-Sky/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Lucy-in-the-Sky 1 13.8k
JunHowie/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GPTQ-Int8 quantized GPTQ 8.42B M apache-2.0 JunHowie 0 12.4k
nm-testing/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP8-block quantized -FP8 3.34B M apache-2.0 nm-testing 0 12.4k
btbtyler09/Qwen3-30B-A3B-gptq-8bit quantized gptq 30.5B L apache-2.0 btbtyler09 3 11.9k
kalomaze/Qwen3-16B-A3B finetune — 16.0B L apache-2.0 kalomaze 89 7.5k
ggml-org/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 ggml-org 6 10.9k
nytopop/Qwen3-30B-A3B.w4a16 quantized — 30.8B L apache-2.0 nytopop 8 10.1k
eaddario/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 eaddario 4 9.8k
6block/Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 6block 0 9.6k
charlesthefool/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 charlesthefool 0 9.2k

Repository changelog

19 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24, 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 19 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-07-26 Create LICENSE ad44e77
2025-05-21 Update README.md ae659fe
2025-05-19 update tokenizer_config.json f0abbbe
2025-04-30 Update README.md (#11) 4c44647
2025-04-29 Update README.md 8428b10
2025-04-28 Update README.md 67b0e0c
2025-04-28 Update README.md ecaea67
2025-04-28 Update README.md ea8afce
2025-04-28 Delete special_tokens_map.json 876f22d
2025-04-28 Delete added_tokens.json 5f4c806
2025-04-28 Update README.md b09a08b
2025-04-28 Update README.md e187836
2025-04-28 Update config.json d47d535
2025-04-28 Update README.md bb90a70
2025-04-28 Update README.md 2a8783f
2025-04-28 Update README.md 0894131
2025-04-28 Update README.md 7e42a81
2025-04-28 Upload folder using huggingface_hub fd4bf3b
2025-04-27 initial commit 5f85ebf

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-30B-A3B, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.12/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
DeepInfra
hf, deepinfra, openrouter
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B 40K fp8 $0.12 $0.50 133.5 230 ms yes live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

28 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.

Analysis7

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.
github.com2025-09-06authorityHN front pageHN 347 pts · 161 comments
byteshape.com2026-01-06HN front pageHN 363 pts · 135 comments3,728 words
artificialanalysis.aiauthority
awesomeagents.ai2026-07-29
blog.laozhang.ai2026-05-22

Community2

twitter.com2025-07-29HN 12 pts · 2 comments
twitter.com2025-08-08HN 5 pts · 0 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (28) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen3 30B A3B 2507 (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 32B (Non-reasoning): Model Comparison | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.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: Efficient Multimodal MoEapi.emergentmind.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B · Docs · Nextbitnextbit256.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai2026-07-292026-10-07exa
Qwen3-30B-A3B: Which Version Should You Run Now? | LaoZhang AI Blogblog.laozhang.ai2026-05-222026-10-07exa
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
A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real timebyteshape.com2026-01-062026-10-07hn
Opencode with Nemotron-3-Nano vs. Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B vs. GPT-OSS-20B-mxfp4 [video]youtube.com2025-12-172026-10-07hn
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
Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5github.com2025-09-062026-10-07hn
Local AI agent in 44 lines of code powered by Qwen3 30B A3B Instructrentry.co2025-08-152026-10-07hn
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
Qwen3-30B-A3B-2507 and Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 now support up to 1M token contexttwitter.com2025-08-082026-10-07hn
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: The first AI model that is good enough for local deployment | Alex Dong’s Blogalexdong.com2025-08-012026-10-07exa
Switching to Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Significantly Improves Local Agenthexeditreality.com2025-07-312026-10-07hn
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507twitter.com2025-07-302026-10-07hn
Qwen3-30B-A3Btwitter.com2025-07-292026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io official2025-07-222026-10-07hn
Running Qwen3-30B-A3B on ARM CPU of Single-Board Computerold.reddit.com2025-04-302026-10-07hn
Qwen 3 30B-A3B Architecture Explainedpythonalchemist.com2025-04-292026-10-07exa
Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io official2025-04-282026-10-07hn

Papers

2 papers

Papers 2

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Sources

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:33 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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