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Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)
Reviewed 2026-06-16Alibaba (Ollama)ollama/qwen3-30b-a3b
- Context
- 32K
- Price
- Free
- Tooling
- 4/5
- Deploy
- Local (self-hosted)
Best for
- Agentic workflows and tool calling
- Writing and editing code
- Complex reasoning and analysis
- Private, offline use on your own hardware
Skip if
- You want a managed, zero-setup API
Capability scores
Tool calling4/5
Multi-step reasoning4/5
Specifications
- Context window
- 32K tokens
- VRAM
- ~20GB
- License
- apache-2.0
- Pricing
- Free to run · needs ~20GB GPU
- Deployment
- Local (self-hosted)
Our take
Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE) from Alibaba (Ollama) offers a 32K-token context window and is well-suited to strong tool calling, multi-step reasoning, coding. It runs on your own hardware, so there is no per-token cost and your data stays private (plan for roughly 20GB of VRAM).
Watch for the trade-offs: there is no managed API — you run and maintain it yourself.
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