Question 1

What is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct is a model from Qwen, released on Oct 4, 2025. Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Instruct variant optimizes instruction-following for general multimodal tasks. It excels in perception of real-world/synthetic categories, 2D/3D spatial grounding, and long-form visual comprehension, achieving competitive multimodal benchmark results. For agentic use, it handles multi-image multi-turn instructions, video timeline alignments, GUI automation, and visual coding from sketches to debugged UI. Text performance matches flagship Qwen3 models, suiting document AI, OCR, UI assistance, spatial tasks, and agent research.

Question 2

How much does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.15 per 1M tokens on DeepInfra and OpenRouter, and output starts at $0.60 per 1M tokens on DeepInfra and OpenRouter, after gateway discounts. Averaged across 3 providers, it costs $0.16 per 1M input tokens and $0.61 per 1M output tokens.

Question 3

Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct on Respan?

Accepted Answer

3 providers serve Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct: DeepInfra, OpenRouter, and Novita.

Question 4

What is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct's context window?

Accepted Answer

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct accepts up to 262K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 21 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 0.6 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Provider	Context	Input	Output
DeepInfra`deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct`	262K	$0.15/M	$0.60/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct`	262K	$0.15/M	$0.60/M
NovitaSave 10%`novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct`	131K	$0.18/M	$0.63/M

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