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Figure 16: Qwen3 Coder Flash 30B-A3B · diagram by Sebastian Raschka · click to zoom
Sparse MoEAlibaba Cloud 🇨🇳 · July 31, 2025

Qwen3 Coder Flash (30B-A3B)

Coding-tuned Qwen model that keeps a straightforward grouped-query MoE stack instead of the newer hybrid-attention variants.

Key detail

Uses 128 experts with 8 active per token and a native 256k context window for coding workloads.

Total params

30B

Active / token

3.3B

Context

256K

Fact sheet

Scale
30B total, 3.3B active (11% active)
Context window
256,000 tokens
Decoder type
Sparse MoE
Attention
GQA
Layer mix
48 GQA
KV cache / token (bf16)
96 KiB · Moderate
License
Apache License 2.0
Released

Efficiency

Parameters active per token

11%

3.3B of 30B weights run for each token.

KV cache per token (bf16)

96 KiB

Smaller than 45% of models in the atlas. How it’s calculated

AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2

Source

9.6

Scientific
1.9

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