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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
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RANKED #18 OF 20 CODE · OVERALL #426 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.2 · 115 VOICES ·
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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...
HAPPY7.4
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SAD7.6
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 107 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
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
People are mostly frustrated with Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct right now.
99 POSTS · 16 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
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
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- 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
- REDDIT · 2025-08-05 · 13 UPVOTESTraining Qwen3-Coder
Training Qwen3-Coder
- REDDIT · 2025-09-06 · 12 UPVOTESRequest: Q4_K_XL quantization for the new distilled Qwen3 30B models
Request: Q4_K_XL quantization for the new distilled Qwen3 30B models
- REDDIT · 2026-03-29 · 7 UPVOTESQwen3-30B-A3B: inconsistent VRAM usage and very different generation latency across two environments
Qwen3-30B-A3B: inconsistent VRAM usage and very different generation latency across two environments
- 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:
- GITHUB · 2026-09-11 · 0 UPVOTES[Tools] Add vLLM prefill and decode calibration profiles
[Tools] Add vLLM prefill and decode calibration profiles
- GITHUB · 2026-09-04 · 0 UPVOTESGPU-Lease zum Programmieren: Qwen 3.8 27B hält die ganze Karte, Solaris antwortet solange damit
GPU-Lease zum Programmieren: Qwen 3.8 27B hält die ganze Karte, Solaris antwortet solange damit