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Qwen3-30B-A3B.w8a8: GPU memory and hosting cost

Open weights · 30.55 billion parameters · Mixture of experts · 40,960-token context · licence apache-2.0

No cloud sells this model per token: to use it you run it yourself, on GPU instances you rent.

Run it yourself

It needs 38.2 GB of GPU memory at int8, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
AWSg6e.xlarge1 × L40S 48 GB$1.86$1,359
Alibaba Cloudecs.gn8is.2xlarge1 × L20 48 GB$2.26$1,648
AzureStandard_NC72ds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v61 × RTX PRO 6000 48 GB$2.83$2,066
Google Clouda2-highgpu-1g1 × A100 40 GB$3.67$2,682

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