Qwen3-32B vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
896 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 32.8 B 30.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,980,175 895,719
Downloads all time 62.7 M 18.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-07-28
API input price / 1M tokens $0.08 $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens $0.28 $0.30
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.36 $0.40
Cached input / 1M tokens — $0.10
AA Intelligence Index — —
AA Coding Index 15.3 —
AA Agentic Index 0.9 —
Max output tokens 16,384 235,929
API providers 3 3
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-32B $0.36
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 $0.40

Qwen3-32B is 1.1× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.0 M752 K
Qwen3-32B Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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