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

Q: Is qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking 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: input_price_per_mtok, max_output_tokens, output_price_per_mtok.

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=input_price_per_mtok,max_output_tokens,output_price_per_mtok checked=2026-10-31 05:09Z

alibaba/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking

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-thinking	262,144	262,144	$0.15	$0.6	—
openrouter	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking	262,144	235,929	$0.29	$1	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
medium	removed	[one catalog only — litellm, openrouter still list it] openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking is no longer listed by this source — calls to it are expected to fail	2026-10-10
high	modified	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: capabilities lost logprobs, presence_penalty, seed, stop, top_logprobs	2026-10-09
medium	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: input_price_per_mtok $0.20/Mtok to $0.29/Mtok	2026-10-09
low	modified	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: max_output_tokens raised 32,768 to 235,929	2026-10-09
info	repriced	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: output_price_per_mtok $2.40/Mtok to $1.00/Mtok	2026-10-09
critical	deprecated	openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: deprecation announced for 2026-10-09 — in 13 days	2026-09-26
critical	deprecated	openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: retires 2026-10-09 (in 13 days)	2026-09-26
critical	deprecated	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: retirement announced for 2026-10-09 — in 14 days	2026-09-25
critical	deprecated	qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking: retires 2026-10-09 (in 14 days)	2026-09-25
low	added	new model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-thinking (262,144 ctx)	2026-09-06