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Qwen3-30B-A3B

Active Parameters

30B

Context Length

131K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

29 Apr 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Mar 2025

API Pricing (per 1M)

Input: $0.20 · Output: $2.40

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

64.76 GB VRAM

Consumer

3x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

131,072 tokens

98.32 GB VRAM

Consumer

5x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

2x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 4.1k · Context: 131K · Vocab: 151.9kx 60 layersLayerNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention96Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 128+LayerNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (8/128 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 768+Final LayerNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#119

BenchmarkScoreRank

Software Engineering

SWE-bench Verified

0.60

25

Graduate-Level QA

GPQA

0.658

89

General Text

Text Arena

1382

107

Agentic Index

Artificial Analysis
auto

0.9

117

auto

0.12

146

Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis
auto

0.10

Standard

0.07

215

236

Rankings

Overall Rank

#119

Coding Rank

#68

About Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is an efficient Mixture-of-Experts model from Alibaba Cloud activating 3.3B parameters per token for high-throughput reasoning. It features dual thinking modes and multilingual fluency across 119 languages over a 131K context window.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

96

Key-Value Heads

8

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

1,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

Layer Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

4,096

Number of Layers

60

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

768

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

151,936

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

3.0B

Number of Experts

128

Active Experts

8

Shared Experts

-

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

768

Dense Layers Before MoE

-

About Qwen 3

The Alibaba Qwen 3 model family comprises dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, with parameter counts from 0.6B to 235B. Key innovations include a hybrid reasoning system, offering 'thinking' and 'non-thinking' modes for adaptive processing, and support for extensive context windows, enhancing efficiency and scalability.


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