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How to deploy Qwen3-30B-A3B on a GPU cloud
A 30.5B (MoE) language model for chat and instruction-following. Full specs, license and use cases.
Qwen3-30B-A3B size and hardware requirements
30.5B
Total parameters
~3B active per token (mixture-of-experts; see total parameters above)
Active parameters
BF16
Published precision
68.2 GB
Min VRAM (native)
| Precision | Weight size on disk | Required VRAM | Cheapest live fit | GPUs needed | Est. $/hr (full fit) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 | 56.9 GB | 68.2 GB | A100 | 1 | $0.851/hr |
| FP8 (quantized) | 28.4 GB | 34.1 GB | RTX 6000 Ada | 1 | $0.524/hr |
| INT4 (quantized) | 14.2 GB | 17.1 GB | RTX 3090 | 1 | $0.147/hr |
How to run Qwen3-30B-A3B
Run Qwen3-30B-A3B with vLLM
From Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B's own deployment docs.
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B --enable-reasoning --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1Source: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B/raw/main/README.md
Run Qwen3-30B-A3B with Ollama
Verified against Ollama's own library listing.
ollama run qwen3:30bRun Qwen3-30B-A3B with GGUF quantizations
Prebuilt GGUF weights published at KVCache-ai/Qwen3-30BA3B-GGUF. Run with llama.cpp's llama-server or load the repo directly in LM Studio.
llama-server -hf KVCache-ai/Qwen3-30BA3B-GGUFDeploy Qwen3-30B-A3B on Aquanode
Aquanode has no one-click deploy template for Qwen3-30B-A3B; you install the inference engine yourself with the commands below. Aquanode sells GPU pods billed per second, not a hosted inference API.
- Launch a bare GPU pod sized to the requirement above (1× A100 or larger).
- Open a terminal on the pod, or save one of the commands above as a startup script so it runs automatically the first time the pod boots.
- Run the command and connect to the resulting endpoint.
Launch a GPU pod