Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

AlibabaMCP Tool Call

alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instructOpen Weights

Open vision-language MoE model for image and video understanding, documents, and visual agents

Benchmark Pricing$0.20 / 1M in$0.70 / 1M out

Context: 262,144 tokens•Max Output: 32,768 tokens•Released: 2025-10-04

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window262,144262.1K tokens

Max Output32,76832.8K tokens

LicenseApache-2.0Self-hostable

Input Modalities

TextVisionVideo

Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)

Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 262,144 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);