Is qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct deprecated?

Q: Is qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct deprecated?

Not yet, but retirement is scheduled. Sunset scheduled for 2026-10-01, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

RETIRING IN 15 DAYS

Sunset scheduled for 2026-10-01, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today. Sources disagree on: context_tokens, input_price_per_mtok, max_output_tokens, output_price_per_mtok.

state=dying sunset=2026-10-01 days_remaining=15 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=context_tokens,input_price_per_mtok,max_output_tokens,output_price_per_mtok checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct

Vendor: alibaba. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	scaleway/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct	128,000	32,768	$0.2	$0.8	2026-10-01
openrouter	qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct	262,144	235,929	$0.07	$0.28	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
critical	deprecated	scaleway/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: deprecation announced for 2026-10-01 — in 21 days	2026-09-10
critical	deprecated	scaleway/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: retires 2026-10-01 (in 21 days)	2026-09-10
low	added	new model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct (262,144 ctx)	2026-09-06
info	modified	[source artifact — 7 providers changed identically on the same day] qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens cut 262,144 to 235,929	2026-08-25
low	modified	qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens raised 32,768 to 262,144	2026-08-10
low	repriced	qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: output_price_per_mtok $0.27/Mtok to $0.28/Mtok	2026-08-10
high	modified	qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens cut 262,144 to 32,768	2026-08-03
info	repriced	qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct: output_price_per_mtok $0.28/Mtok to $0.27/Mtok	2026-08-03
low	added	new model scaleway/qwen/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct (128,000 ctx)	2026-06-12