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Run Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct on Lium

Alibaba Qwen · Text generation · 30.5B parameters · 61.1 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-07-31
It needs about 74 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is 2x RTX A6000 (96 GB), from $0.84 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

4x RTX 309096 GBfrom $1.16 / hourRent
H100 80GB HBM380 GBfrom $1.85 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct:
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct --tensor-parallel-size 2
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct need?

About 61.1 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 74 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.

What GPU should I rent to run Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct?

2x RTX A6000 (96 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.84 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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