Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B by Qwen / Alibaba — $0.120 input / $0.500 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 40K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.068 | $2.05 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $0.370 | $11.10 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $4.90 | $147.00 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $110.00 | $3300.00 |
qwen/qwen3-30b-a3bQwen: Qwen3 30B A3B is an LLM developed by Qwen / Alibaba. Input costs $0.120 per million tokens and output costs $0.500 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 40K tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
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