Qwen: Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B

Q: Is Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B free?

Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js . With the User-Pays Model , you can add Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b

Access Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B from Qwen using Puter.js AI API.

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// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';

puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
    model: "qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b"
}).then(response => {
    document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});

<html>
<body>
    <script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
    <script>
        puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
            model: "qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b"
        }).then(response => {
            document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
    api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
    ],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
    ]
  }'

Model Card

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B is a compact mixture-of-experts vision-language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, with 30B total parameters and only 3B active per token for efficient inference.

It supports image and text inputs with a 131K context window and delivers strong multimodal performance on benchmarks including MMMU and visual-math evaluations. Capabilities include document and chart understanding, OCR, visual coding (generating HTML/CSS/JS from images), 2D spatial grounding, and GUI agent tasks across desktop and mobile interfaces.

The MoE architecture gives it the knowledge breadth of a much larger model while matching the latency and cost profile of a 3B dense model — making it a practical choice for developers who need reliable vision-language capabilities without the compute cost of the 235B flagship variant. Supports tool calling.

Context Window 131K

tokens

Max Output 33K

tokens

Input Cost $0.2

per million tokens

Output Cost $0.8

per million tokens

Input text, image

modalities

Tool Use Yes

Knowledge Cutoff Apr 2025

Release Date Apr 2025

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I use Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

You can access Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B by Qwen through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.

Is Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B free?

Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.

What is the pricing for Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B costs $0.2 per 1M input tokens and $0.8 per 1M output tokens.

	Price per 1M tokens
Input	$0.2
Output	$0.8

Who created Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B was created by Qwen and released on Apr 2025.

What is the context window of Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B supports a context window of 131K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 262 pages of text.

What is the max output length of Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B can generate up to 33K tokens in a single response.

What is the knowledge cutoff of Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B has a knowledge cutoff date of Apr 2025. This means the model was trained on data available up to that date.

What types of input can Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B process?

Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B accepts the following input types: text, image. It produces: text.

Does Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B support tool use (function calling)?

Yes, Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.

Does it work with React / Vue / Vanilla JS / Node / etc.?

Yes — the Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.

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