Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B is Alibaba's coding-specialized MoE (30B total, 3B active) under Apache-2.0, sitting at 7.4M Ollama pulls. It is the entry point into Alibaba's dedicated Qwen3-Coder line, whose smallest official variant starts at 30B.
Overview
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B is Alibaba's coding-specialized MoE (30B total, 3B active) under Apache-2.0, sitting at 7.4M Ollama pulls. It is the entry point into Alibaba's dedicated Qwen3-Coder line, whose smallest official variant starts at 30B.
Strengths
- Apache-2.0 license with commercial use allowed
- MoE (3B active) decodes fast relative to its 30B total size
- High adoption: 7.4M Ollama pulls for the coding-specialist line
Weaknesses
- No smaller official Qwen3-Coder variant exists below 30B
- Coding-specialized training — general chat quality not the design target
Reviewed quality benchmarks
First-party rows were run by RunLocalAI; reviewed community rows are labeled in the data. Every row links to the raw test-run log.
| Benchmark | Quant | Runtime / Hardware | Score | Raw log |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HumanEval+ tested 2026-07-20 | Q4_K_M | ollama-0.32.1-vast5090 rtx-5090 | 87.8/100 | Gist → |
Q4_K_M note:First-party HumanEval+ on a rented Vast.ai RTX 5090 32GB instance via Ollama 0.32.1. Generation via evalplus_openai_generate.py, scoring via evalplus.evaluate (native Linux, no Windows shim needed). No DB credentials were placed on the rented host — results were pulled back and ingested from the operator's machine.
Want to verify? Every row links to its Gist with full stdout and stderr of the run. The runner script is in the public repo (scripts/run-humaneval-plus.ts) — reproducible end-to-end. Browse all coding scores at /benchmarks/coding.
Quantization variants
Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.
| Quantization | File size | VRAM required |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 19.0 GB | 23 GB |
Get the model
Ollama
One-line install
ollama run qwen3-coder:30bRead our Ollama review →Hardware that runs this
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