Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
API ID: qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking
About Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding for images and videos. Its Thinking variant enhances reasoning in STEM, math, and complex 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.
Model Specifications
Best For
- Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
- Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
- Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
- Conversations, content writing, general assistance
Consider Alternatives For
- Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)
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| Model | Input | Output | Context | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Current | Free | Free | 262k | chat code reasoning tool_use vision |
| Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct | Free | Free | 33k | chat vision tool_use |
| Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | Free | Free | 8k | chat code |
| Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B | Free | Free | 8k | chat code |
| Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct | Free | Free | 64k | chat vision code |
| Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct | Free | Free | 64k | chat vision code |
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