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

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

No — still supported. Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model.

NOT DEPRECATED

Listed by litellm, openrouter. No retirement date announced. Neither the provider's API nor its documentation has been checked for this model. Sources disagree on: max_output_tokens.

state=alive sunset=none days_remaining=n/a severity=low sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=max_output_tokens checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

alibaba/qwen3-vl-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	fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct	262,144	262,144	$0.15	$0.6	—
openrouter	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct	262,144	16,384	$0.15	$0.6	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	added	new model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct (262,144 ctx)	2026-09-06
high	modified	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens cut 32,768 to 16,384	2026-08-28
low	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: input_price_per_mtok $0.13/Mtok to $0.15/Mtok	2026-08-28
low	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: output_price_per_mtok $0.52/Mtok to $0.60/Mtok	2026-08-28
low	added	new model deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct (262,144 ctx)	2026-08-28
low	modified	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens raised 16,384 to 32,768	2026-08-14
info	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: input_price_per_mtok $0.15/Mtok to $0.13/Mtok	2026-08-14
info	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: output_price_per_mtok $0.60/Mtok to $0.52/Mtok	2026-08-14
high	modified	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: max_output_tokens cut 32,768 to 16,384	2026-08-04
low	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: input_price_per_mtok $0.13/Mtok to $0.15/Mtok	2026-08-04
low	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct: output_price_per_mtok $0.52/Mtok to $0.60/Mtok	2026-08-04