Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

by Alibaba

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking pairs an efficient MoE architecture (30B parameters, about 3B active) with explicit reasoning traces for complex visual problems. The thinking mode generates step-by-step reasoning before the final answer, producing interpretable solutions across multimodal tasks. It fits visual reasoning benchmarks, math problem-solving with images, and spatial reasoning where understanding the model's visual reasoning process is important. With a 131K context window, it handles long documents and video analysis, and it scores strongly on competition math such as AIME 2025. The model bridges efficiency and reasoning transparency, making it suitable for educational visual AI, visual mathematics tutoring, and research applications. The open-weight release enables fine-tuning on specialized visual reasoning domains and local deployment.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
131K
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.20 /1M
Output price
$1.00 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention via Enterprise
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance β€” full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
NovitaUSEnterpriseNo$0.20$1.00

Training posture across routes: No training on prompts by default.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Novita β€” United StatesπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Zero data retention is available via Opper Enterprise contract. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Available via Opper Enterprise contract.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

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Call Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly β€” Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

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Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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