Is Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or Qwen-VL Max cheaper?

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper on output tokens ($0.57 vs $0.86 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or Qwen-VL Max?

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct has the larger context window (262K tokens).

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct vs Qwen-VL Max

Qwen-VL Max is cheaper on output tokens, while Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct offers a larger context window. Choose Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct or Qwen-VL Max based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct	Qwen-VL Max
Provider	Alibaba (China)	Alibaba (China)
Input / 1M tokens	$0.22	$0.23
Output / 1M tokens	$0.86	$0.57
Context window	262K	131K
Parameters	—	7B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Apr 2025	Apr 2024

Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct details →Qwen-VL Max details →

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