Qwen3-Coder-30B
Alibaba's 30B MoE coding model (3B active) — agentic coding with 256K context, Apache 2.0.
About
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (July 2025) is the efficient member of Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder family: 30B total parameters with only 3B active per token (MoE), 256K native context (1M with extrapolation), and strong agentic coding — tool use, multi-file edits, and long-horizon software tasks.
Apache 2.0 licensed — commercial use allowed. With 386k Hugging Face downloads it is the most-used Qwen3-Coder checkpoint. The MoE design means inference costs sit near a 3B dense model while capacity approaches much larger ones — the same efficiency story as the flagship Qwen3-Coder-480B, distilled to runnable size. Pairs well with Qwen Code / Claude Code-style agentic harnesses. For the full-fat version see qwen3-coder (already in the catalog).
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-claimed (Qwen team): competitive with leading open coding models on SWE-bench-style agentic evaluations — treat as provider-claimed. Independent: strong community reception for agentic coding; no standardized third-party scores verified.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). Apache 2.0, the most-used Qwen3-Coder checkpoint (386k downloads), and the MoE efficiency story is technically sound with strong community validation for agentic coding. Docked two points: (1) benchmark claims are provider-reported on agentic evals without independent verification; (2) the 256K→1M context extrapolation is provider-described — verify long-context quality for your use case.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.3/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · HF downloads 386,097 (peer-normalized)
- · released 447 days ago
- · manual review: most-used Qwen3-Coder checkpoint; MoE efficiency sound; agentic coding validated by community; benchmarks provider-reported; license: Apache-2.0