Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Qwen · released 2025-07-31 · apache-2.0 license

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B (3.3B active) open-weight MoE coding model (July 2025, Apache-2.0) focused on agentic coding with 262K context. Artificial Analysis scores it 20 on its Intelligence Index, above average for its size.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters30.53B total · MoE, — active
Architectureqwen3_moe
Context window262K tokens
Knowledge cutoff2025-06-30
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond
SWE-bench Verified
AIME
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M19.2 GB17.7 GB262K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Agentic coding and tool use for a small MoE (3.3B active); Long context (262K native, up to 1M with YaRN); Above-average intelligence vs similar-size open models

Weaknesses: No official per-eval benchmark table for this size; Non-thinking only