Is qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507 deprecated?

Q: Is qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507 deprecated?

Not yet, but retirement is scheduled. Sunset scheduled for 2026-10-09, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

RETIRING IN 9 DAYS

Sunset scheduled for 2026-10-09, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

state=dying sunset=2026-10-09 days_remaining=9 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=none checked=2026-09-30 15:40Z

alibaba/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507

Vendor: alibaba. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507	81,920	32,768	$0.2	$2.4	2026-10-09
openrouter	qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507	81,920	32,768	$0.2	$2.4	2026-10-09

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
critical	deprecated	openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507: deprecation announced for 2026-10-09 — in 13 days	2026-09-26
critical	deprecated	openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507: retires 2026-10-09 (in 13 days)	2026-09-26
critical	deprecated	qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507: retirement announced for 2026-10-09 — in 14 days	2026-09-25
critical	deprecated	qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507: retires 2026-10-09 (in 14 days)	2026-09-25
low	added	new model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507 (81,920 ctx)	2026-09-06