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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
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RANKED #10 OF 11 CODE · OVERALL #300 OF 6,479 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 35 VOICES
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is a 30.5B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 128 experts (8 active per forward pass), designed for advanced code generation, repository-scale understanding, and agentic tool use. Built on the...
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 42 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
30.5B total parameters (MoE with 3.3B active), a Q4 file is about 18 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM
12 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM
~$250 USEDQ4_K_M with partial GPU offload, ~12 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ4_K_M with full GPU offload, ~55 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Dual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
48 GB VRAM
~$1400 USEDFP16 or Q8 with massive context window up to 128k, ~70 tok/s
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN QWEN3 CODER 30B A3B INSTRUCT?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERDual NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~42 S | ~9 S | ~7 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~27 S★★★★★ | ~21 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~35 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct yet to call it. We found 35 posts but people did not say much either way.
29 POSTS · 6 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLUESKY · HACKER NEWS · GITHUB · LEMMY · X · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
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Codestral> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-04-01 · 110 UPVOTES[D] We reimplemented Claude Code entirely in Python — open source, works with local models
[D] We reimplemented Claude Code entirely in Python — open source, works with local models
- REDDIT · 2026-02-23 · 96 UPVOTESI benchmarked 17 local LLMs on real MCP tool calling — single-shot AND agentic loop. The difference is massive.
I benchmarked 17 local LLMs on real MCP tool calling — single-shot AND agentic loop. The difference is massive.
- HACKER NEWS · 2025-08-31 · 80 UPVOTESCline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B
Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B
- REDDIT · 2025-11-15 · 54 UPVOTESRyzen AI MAX+ 395 - LLM metrics
Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 - LLM metrics
- LEMMY · 2026-02-19 · 5 UPVOTESArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index and cost benchmarks are useful decision/guidance determinants for which models to use. Analysis for…
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and cost benchmarks are useful decision/guidance determinants for which models to use. Analysis for top models.
- LEMMY · 2025-10-26 · 4 UPVOTESMy 8gb vram system as i try to load GLM-4.6-Q0.00001_XXXS.gguf:
My 8gb vram system as i try to load GLM-4.6-Q0.00001_XXXS.gguf:
- DEV FORUMS · 2026-08-12 · 3 UPVOTESHRH Projects: SLM with LLM Fallback
HRH Projects: SLM with LLM Fallback
- REDDIT · 2026-01-24 · 2 UPVOTESCan you not use vllm run-batch to batch process completions with tools?
Can you not use vllm run-batch to batch process completions with tools?
- GITHUB · 2026-08-14 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(wiserepo)!: local Ollama only — remove the Claude/OpenAI backends
feat(wiserepo)!: local Ollama only — remove the Claude/OpenAI backends
- GITHUB · 2026-08-12 · 0 UPVOTESSet up local MLXServe + Qwen workflow
Set up local MLXServe + Qwen workflow
- GITHUB · 2026-08-14 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(wiserepo): add local Ollama backend (gated off pending hardware)
feat(wiserepo): add local Ollama backend (gated off pending hardware)
- BLUESKY · 2026-06-23 · 0 UPVOTESThe lineup on a 256GB M3 Ultra: • gemma4:31b-mlx — always-on workhorse (~20GB) • qwen3-coder:30b — code + review (MoE,
The lineup on a 256GB M3 Ultra: • gemma4:31b-mlx — always-on workhorse (~20GB) • qwen3-coder:30b — code + review (MoE,