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Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct

Alibaba

Released
April 2025
Data date
September 26, 2026

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct is the smaller open MoE variant in the Qwen3-Coder family. It has 30.5 billion total parameters, activates only 3.3 billion per token, and supports non-thinking mode only. A purpose-built function-calling format connects the checkpoint with Qwen Code, Cline, and similar coding environments.

Native context reaches 262,144 tokens and can be extended to 1 million with YaRN. Compared with Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct, this checkpoint activates less than one-tenth as many parameters per token.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
Parameters
30 billionSource
Active parameters
3 billionSource
Context window
262,144 tokensSource
Maximum output
65,536 tokensSource
Knowledge Cutoff
April 2025Source
License
Apache 2.0Source
Inputs
TextSource
Outputs
TextSource
Tool calling