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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team model product

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Qwen3-VL is a large multimodal model that unifies vision, language, and reasoning to achieve human-level perception and cognition across text, images, and video.

Updated Aug 17, 2026. Default version: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

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LLMBoard Score31.1Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Coverage100%50 benchmark families
Context window262.1KTokens
Official input priceN/AOfficial price unavailable

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Capability Profile

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking LLMBoard score breakdown

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Benchmark Results

Benchmark scores for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking.

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BenchmarkMMMU (val)Score76.0%Rank02Participants13Percentile91.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMLVU-MScore78.9%Rank03Participants8Percentile71.4%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMuirBenchScore77.6%Rank03Participants12Percentile81.8%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkCharadesSTAScore62.7%Rank05Participants12Percentile63.6%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkOCRBench-V2 (zh)Score60.4%Rank05Participants11Percentile60.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkInfoVQAtestScore86.0%Rank06Participants12Percentile54.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkScreenSpotScore94.7%Rank06Participants16Percentile66.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkHallusion BenchScore66.0%Rank07Participants18Percentile64.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkWritingBenchScore85.2%Rank08Participants15Percentile50.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkCharXiv-DScore86.9%Rank09Participants17Percentile50.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkLiveBench 20241125Score72.1%Rank09Participants14Percentile38.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMBench-V1.1Score88.9%Rank09Participants20Percentile57.9%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkOCRBench-V2 (en)Score62.6%Rank09Participants14Percentile38.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkDocVQAtestScore95.0%Rank10Participants11Percentile10.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMStarScore75.5%Rank10Participants24Percentile60.9%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMVBenchScore72.0%Rank10Participants17Percentile43.8%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkBLINKScore65.4%Rank11Participants15Percentile28.6%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkCreative Writing v3Score82.5%Rank11Participants13Percentile16.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMathVista-MiniScore81.9%Rank11Participants24Percentile56.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMM-MT-BenchScore7.9 pointsRank12Participants17Percentile31.3%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkPolyMATHScore51.7%Rank12Participants23Percentile50.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkArena-Hard v2Score56.7%Rank13Participants16Percentile20.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkBFCL-v3Score68.6%Rank13Participants19Percentile33.3%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMulti-IFScore73.0%Rank13Participants23Percentile45.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkODinWScore42.3%Rank13Participants16Percentile20.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkVideo-MMEScore73.3%Rank13Participants17Percentile25.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkCC-OCRScore77.8%Rank14Participants18Percentile23.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkLVBenchScore59.2%Rank16Participants25Percentile37.5%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkOSWorldScore30.6%Rank16Participants20Percentile21.1%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkHMMT25Score67.6%Rank17Participants25Percentile33.3%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkIncludeScore74.5%Rank17Participants31Percentile46.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkRealWorldQAScore77.4%Rank17Participants29Percentile42.9%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkAI2DScore86.9%Rank18Participants33Percentile46.9%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMLU-ProXScore76.1%Rank18Participants32Percentile45.2%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkOCRBenchScore83.9%Rank18Participants24Percentile26.1%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkScreenSpot ProScore57.3%Rank18Participants25Percentile29.2%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkVideoMMMUScore75.0%Rank19Participants26Percentile28.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMathVisionScore65.7%Rank20Participants33Percentile40.6%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkERQAScore45.3%Rank21Participants24Percentile13.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMLUScore87.6%Rank22Participants101Percentile79.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkSuperGPQAScore56.4%Rank23Participants34Percentile33.3%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMLU-ReduxScore90.9%Rank24Participants48Percentile51.1%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkSimpleQAScore23.9%Rank30Participants47Percentile37.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkLiveCodeBench v6Score64.2%Rank39Participants56Percentile30.9%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkCharXiv-RScore56.6%Rank43Participants51Percentile16.0%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMMU-ProScore63.0%Rank46Participants68Percentile32.8%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkIFEvalScore81.7%Rank51Participants67Percentile24.2%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkMMLU-ProScore80.5%Rank58Participants134Percentile57.1%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkAIME 2025Score83.1%Rank64Participants115Percentile44.7%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026
BenchmarkGPQAScore74.4%Rank115Participants239Percentile52.1%EvidenceCEvaluatedAug 17, 2026

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Arena Results

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Pricing

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ProviderOpenRouterProvider model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinkingRegionglobalInput / 1M$0.20Output / 1M$2.4Context262.1KUpdatedAug 17, 2026

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Runtime Performance

Provider-specific output speed and catalog latency for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking. Runtime does not affect the capability score.

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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Specifications

Technical details for the model's default version.

Version
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
Released
Sep 22, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Unknown
Parameters
31B
Context window
262.1K
Max output
262.1K
Inputs
image, text, video
Outputs
text
Open weights
No
License
Apache 2.0

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Versions

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VersionQwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingReleasedSep 22, 2025LLMBoard31.1Parameters31BContext262.1KMax output262.1KOpen weightsNoLicenseApache 2.0

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What is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?

Key information about Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking and its available data.

Qwen3-VL is a large multimodal model that unifies vision, language, and reasoning to achieve human-level perception and cognition across text, images, and video. Built on a 235B-parameter architecture, it integrates early joint training of visual and textual modalities for strong language grounding.

The model supports up to a 1 million-token context window and excels at visual understanding, spatial reasoning, long video comprehension, and tool-based interaction. It can generate code from images, perform precise 2D/3D object grounding, and operate digital interfaces like a visual agent.

5 Pro in perception benchmarks, while the “Thinking” version leads in multimodal reasoning and STEM tasks. With multilingual OCR, creative writing, and fine-grained scene interpretation, Qwen3-VL establishes a new open-source frontier for integrated vision-language intelligence.

Data as of 2026-08-17.

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking.

When was Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking released?

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking's default version was released on Sep 22, 2025.

How much does Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking cost?

No official standard PAYG price is currently available for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking. The lowest tracked third-party offer starts at $0.20 input and $2.4 output via OpenRouter.

Who created Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking was created by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

What is the context window for Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?

The default version has a 262.1K token context window.

Is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking open weight?

No. The default version is not marked as having publicly available weights.

How many API providers offer Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking?

2 provider offerings are linked to the default version.

What models should I compare Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking with?

Nearby ranked alternatives include Nemotron Nano 9B, Claude Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4.1.