Qwen3-30B-A3B vs MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 September 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
40,960
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-30B-A3B | MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 30.5 B | 116.4 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 196,608 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,115,081 | 221,989 |
| Downloads all time | 23.2 M | 1.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2026-03-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.12 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.50 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.62 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 1 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-30B-A3B
$0.62
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.7 M222 K
Qwen3-30B-A3B
MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-30B-A3B · fp16
72.3 GB / 24 GB
MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
573.2 GB / 24 GB