Qwen3 30B A3B

About Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B is Alibaba's efficient large model using Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 30B total parameters and 3B active. The model delivers strong performance while maintaining fast inference and low costs. Qwen3 30B excels at reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks, offering excellent capability-to-cost ratio. Available in instruct and thinking variants for different use cases. The MoE architecture enables deployment on more modest hardware than dense models of similar capability. For developers seeking capable AI with efficient resource usage, Qwen3 30B provides excellent value.

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from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-04-28",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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