How much does Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct costs about $472.50 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.45 per 1M input tokens, $2.25 per 1M output tokens).

Does Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct.

How long is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct's context window?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens (262K) of context and returns up to 65,536 tokens per response.

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct API Pricing

Alibaba · released April 2025 · 262K context · API model ID qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct by Alibaba API pricing: $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $2.25 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.45
Output	$2.25
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Alibaba's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$472.50

per month

per day: $15.75
per request: $0.00158

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Long-context prices

Prompts longer than the threshold are billed at a higher rate.

Prompts over	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write
32,000 tokens	$0.75	$3.75	Not published	Not published
128,000 tokens	$1.20	$6.00	Not published	Not published

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$472.50/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$708.75/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$1,350/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 262,144 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input: text
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: April 2025
Open weights: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct costs about $472.50 per month at Alibaba's list prices ($0.45 per 1M input tokens, $2.25 per 1M output tokens).
Does Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct.
How long is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct's context window?: Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct accepts up to 262,144 tokens (262K) of context and returns up to 65,536 tokens per response.