diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/README.md b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/README.md
index cb785f21..d81cd666 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/README.md
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/README.md
@@ -25,3 +25,28 @@ def print_prime(n: int):  # n is the number of primes to be printed
             print(i)
 ```
 
+The qwen3 MoE variant is also an option.
+
+```bash
+$ cargo run --example qwen --features metal --release  -- --prompt "Write a poem about butterflies. <think></think>." --model "3-moe-a3b"
+> In morning's hush, where daisies sleep,  
+> A fleeting dance through sunlit deep—  
+> They flutter soft on gossamer thread,  
+> The messengers of spring’s own head.
+> 
+> With painted sails and delicate grace,  
+> They drift from bloom to blossom's face.  
+> Each wing a tale in hues unseen,  
+> Of ancient dreams and secrets between.
+> 
+> No sound they make, yet still they speak—  
+> Of time that flies, of life so brief.  
+> A fleeting kiss on summer’s breath,  
+> A whisper lost before death.
+> 
+> Yet in their flight, the soul takes wing,  
+> And for a moment, all is spring.  
+> For though they fade, they never die—  
+> Their beauty lives where hearts can fly.
+> 161 tokens generated (3.00 token/s)
+```
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
index d0e179e0..3b90b9fb 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/qwen/main.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use clap::Parser;
 use candle_transformers::models::qwen2::{Config as ConfigBase, ModelForCausalLM as ModelBase};
 use candle_transformers::models::qwen2_moe::{Config as ConfigMoe, Model as ModelMoe};
 use candle_transformers::models::qwen3::{Config as Config3, ModelForCausalLM as Model3};
+use candle_transformers::models::qwen3_moe::{Config as ConfigMoe3, ModelForCausalLM as ModelMoe3};
 
 use candle::{DType, Device, Tensor};
 use candle_examples::token_output_stream::TokenOutputStream;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ enum Model {
     Base(ModelBase),
     Moe(ModelMoe),
     Base3(Model3),
+    Moe3(ModelMoe3),
 }
 
 impl Model {
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ impl Model {
             Self::Moe(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
             Self::Base(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
             Self::Base3(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
+            Self::Moe3(ref mut m) => m.forward(xs, s),
         }
     }
 }
@@ -167,6 +170,8 @@ enum WhichModel {
     W3_4b,
     #[value(name = "3-8b")]
     W3_8b,
+    #[value(name = "3-moe-a3b")]
+    W3MoeA3b,
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser, Debug)]
@@ -273,6 +278,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
                 WhichModel::W3_1_7b => ("3", "1.7B"),
                 WhichModel::W3_4b => ("3", "4B"),
                 WhichModel::W3_8b => ("3", "8B"),
+                WhichModel::W3MoeA3b => ("3", "30B-A3B"),
             };
             format!("Qwen/Qwen{version}-{size}")
         }
@@ -308,7 +314,8 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             | WhichModel::MoeA27b
             | WhichModel::W3_1_7b
             | WhichModel::W3_4b
-            | WhichModel::W3_8b => {
+            | WhichModel::W3_8b
+            | WhichModel::W3MoeA3b => {
                 candle_examples::hub_load_safetensors(&repo, "model.safetensors.index.json")?
             }
         },
@@ -334,6 +341,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
             let config: Config3 = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
             Model::Base3(Model3::new(&config, vb)?)
         }
+        WhichModel::W3MoeA3b => {
+            let config: ConfigMoe3 = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
+            Model::Moe3(ModelMoe3::new(&config, vb)?)
+        }
         _ => {
             let config: ConfigBase = serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(config_file)?)?;
             Model::Base(ModelBase::new(&config, vb)?)
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
index d8f71b44..8d80b183 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mod.rs
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ pub mod quantized_t5;
 pub mod qwen2;
 pub mod qwen2_moe;
 pub mod qwen3;
+pub mod qwen3_moe;
 pub mod recurrent_gemma;
 pub mod repvgg;
 pub mod resnet;
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3_moe.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3_moe.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e88a0538
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/qwen3_moe.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,355 @@
+use crate::models::{
+    qwen3::{Config as Qwen3Config, Qwen3Attention, Qwen3MLP, Qwen3RotaryEmbedding},
+    with_tracing::{linear_no_bias, Linear, RmsNorm},
+};
+use candle::{DType, Device, Module, Result, Tensor, D};
+use candle_nn::{Activation, VarBuilder};
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, serde::Deserialize)]
+pub struct Config {
+    pub vocab_size: usize,
+    pub hidden_size: usize,
+    pub intermediate_size: usize,
+    pub num_hidden_layers: usize,
+    pub num_attention_heads: usize,
+    pub head_dim: usize,
+    pub attention_bias: bool,
+    pub num_key_value_heads: usize,
+    pub max_position_embeddings: usize,
+    pub sliding_window: Option<usize>,
+    pub max_window_layers: usize,
+    pub tie_word_embeddings: bool,
+    pub rope_theta: f64,
+    pub rms_norm_eps: f64,
+    pub use_sliding_window: bool,
+    pub hidden_act: Activation,
+    // MoE specific configuration
+    pub decoder_sparse_step: usize,
+    pub moe_intermediate_size: usize,
+    pub num_experts_per_tok: usize,
+    pub num_experts: usize,
+    pub norm_topk_prob: bool,
+}
+
+impl From<&Config> for Qwen3Config {
+    fn from(val: &Config) -> Self {
+        Qwen3Config {
+            vocab_size: val.vocab_size,
+            hidden_size: val.hidden_size,
+            intermediate_size: val.intermediate_size,
+            num_hidden_layers: val.num_hidden_layers,
+            num_attention_heads: val.num_attention_heads,
+            head_dim: val.head_dim,
+            attention_bias: val.attention_bias,
+            num_key_value_heads: val.num_key_value_heads,
+            max_position_embeddings: val.max_position_embeddings,
+            sliding_window: val.sliding_window,
+            max_window_layers: val.max_window_layers,
+            tie_word_embeddings: val.tie_word_embeddings,
+            rope_theta: val.rope_theta,
+            rms_norm_eps: val.rms_norm_eps,
+            use_sliding_window: val.use_sliding_window,
+            hidden_act: val.hidden_act,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct Qwen3MLPExpert {
+    gate_proj: Linear,
+    up_proj: Linear,
+    down_proj: Linear,
+    act_fn: Activation,
+}
+
+impl Qwen3MLPExpert {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        Ok(Self {
+            gate_proj: linear_no_bias(
+                cfg.hidden_size,
+                cfg.moe_intermediate_size,
+                vb.pp("gate_proj"),
+            )?,
+            up_proj: linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.moe_intermediate_size, vb.pp("up_proj"))?,
+            down_proj: linear_no_bias(
+                cfg.moe_intermediate_size,
+                cfg.hidden_size,
+                vb.pp("down_proj"),
+            )?,
+            act_fn: cfg.hidden_act,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Qwen3MLPExpert {
+    fn forward(&self, x: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let lhs = x.apply(&self.gate_proj)?.apply(&self.act_fn)?;
+        let rhs = x.apply(&self.up_proj)?;
+        (lhs * rhs)?.apply(&self.down_proj)
+    }
+}
+
+// Qwen3 Sparse MoE Block implementation
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct Qwen3SparseMoeBlock {
+    gate: Linear,
+    experts: Vec<Qwen3MLPExpert>,
+    norm_topk_prob: bool,
+    num_experts_per_tok: usize,
+}
+
+impl Qwen3SparseMoeBlock {
+    fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let gate = linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.num_experts, vb.pp("gate"))?;
+        let mut experts = Vec::with_capacity(cfg.num_experts);
+        let vb_e = vb.pp("experts");
+        for idx in 0..cfg.num_experts {
+            let expert = Qwen3MLPExpert::new(cfg, vb_e.pp(idx))?;
+            experts.push(expert)
+        }
+        Ok(Self {
+            gate,
+            experts,
+            norm_topk_prob: cfg.norm_topk_prob,
+            num_experts_per_tok: cfg.num_experts_per_tok,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+impl Module for Qwen3SparseMoeBlock {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (b_size, seq_len, hidden_dim) = xs.dims3()?;
+        let xs = xs.reshape(((), hidden_dim))?;
+        let router_logits = xs.apply(&self.gate)?;
+        let routing_weights = candle_nn::ops::softmax_last_dim(&router_logits)?;
+
+        // Extract topk experts per token
+        let experts_per_tok = routing_weights
+            .arg_sort_last_dim(false)?
+            .narrow(D::Minus1, 0, self.num_experts_per_tok)?
+            .contiguous()?;
+        let routing_weights = routing_weights.gather(&experts_per_tok, D::Minus1)?;
+
+        // Extract needed data
+        let routing_weights = routing_weights.to_dtype(DType::F32)?.to_vec2::<f32>()?;
+        let experts_per_tok = experts_per_tok.to_vec2::<u32>()?;
+        let mut top_x = vec![vec![]; self.experts.len()];
+        let mut selected_experts = vec![vec![]; self.experts.len()];
+        for (row_idx, (rw, expert_idxs)) in routing_weights
+            .iter()
+            .zip(experts_per_tok.iter())
+            .enumerate()
+        {
+            let sum_rw = rw.iter().sum::<f32>();
+            for (&rw, &expert_idx) in rw.iter().zip(expert_idxs.iter()) {
+                top_x[expert_idx as usize].push(row_idx as u32);
+                let rw = if self.norm_topk_prob { rw / sum_rw } else { rw };
+                selected_experts[expert_idx as usize].push(rw)
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Process through experts
+        let mut ys = xs.zeros_like()?;
+        for (expert_idx, expert_layer) in self.experts.iter().enumerate() {
+            let top_x = &top_x[expert_idx];
+            if top_x.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+            let top_x = Tensor::new(top_x.as_slice(), xs.device())?;
+            let selected_experts =
+                Tensor::new(selected_experts[expert_idx].as_slice(), xs.device())?
+                    .reshape(((), 1))?
+                    .to_dtype(xs.dtype())?;
+
+            let current_state = xs.index_select(&top_x, 0)?.reshape(((), hidden_dim))?;
+            let current_hidden_states = expert_layer.forward(&current_state)?;
+            let current_hidden_states = current_hidden_states.broadcast_mul(&selected_experts)?;
+            ys = ys.index_add(&top_x, &current_hidden_states, 0)?;
+        }
+
+        ys.reshape((b_size, seq_len, hidden_dim))
+    }
+}
+
+// MLP or MoE decision enum
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+enum Qwen3FeedForward {
+    Mlp(Qwen3MLP),
+    MoE(Qwen3SparseMoeBlock),
+}
+
+impl Module for Qwen3FeedForward {
+    fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        match self {
+            Self::Mlp(m) => m.forward(xs),
+            Self::MoE(m) => m.forward(xs),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct DecoderLayer {
+    self_attn: Qwen3Attention,
+    feed_forward: Qwen3FeedForward,
+    ln1: RmsNorm,
+    ln2: RmsNorm,
+}
+
+impl DecoderLayer {
+    fn new(
+        layer_idx: usize,
+        cfg: &Config,
+        rotary: Arc<Qwen3RotaryEmbedding>,
+        vb: VarBuilder,
+    ) -> Result<Self> {
+        let self_attn = Qwen3Attention::new(&cfg.into(), rotary, vb.pp("self_attn"))?;
+
+        // Decide whether to use MoE or regular MLP based on layer_idx and decoder_sparse_step
+        let feed_forward = if cfg.num_experts > 0 && (layer_idx + 1) % cfg.decoder_sparse_step == 0
+        {
+            Qwen3FeedForward::MoE(Qwen3SparseMoeBlock::new(cfg, vb.pp("mlp"))?)
+        } else {
+            Qwen3FeedForward::Mlp(Qwen3MLP::new(&cfg.into(), vb.pp("mlp"))?)
+        };
+
+        let ln1 = RmsNorm::new(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("input_layernorm"))?;
+        let ln2 = RmsNorm::new(
+            cfg.hidden_size,
+            cfg.rms_norm_eps,
+            vb.pp("post_attention_layernorm"),
+        )?;
+
+        Ok(Self {
+            self_attn,
+            feed_forward,
+            ln1,
+            ln2,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&mut self, x: &Tensor, mask: Option<&Tensor>, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let h = self.ln1.forward(x)?;
+        let h = self.self_attn.forward(&h, mask, offset)?;
+        let x = (x + h)?;
+        let h2 = self.ln2.forward(&x)?;
+        let h2 = h2.apply(&self.feed_forward)?;
+        x + h2
+    }
+
+    fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        self.self_attn.clear_kv_cache();
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct Model {
+    embed_tokens: candle_nn::Embedding,
+    layers: Vec<DecoderLayer>,
+    norm: RmsNorm,
+    device: Device,
+    dtype: DType,
+}
+
+impl Model {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let embed_tokens =
+            candle_nn::embedding(cfg.vocab_size, cfg.hidden_size, vb.pp("model.embed_tokens"))?;
+        let rotary = Arc::new(Qwen3RotaryEmbedding::new(
+            vb.dtype(),
+            &cfg.into(),
+            vb.device(),
+        )?);
+        let mut layers = Vec::with_capacity(cfg.num_hidden_layers);
+        let vb_l = vb.pp("model.layers");
+        for i in 0..cfg.num_hidden_layers {
+            layers.push(DecoderLayer::new(i, cfg, rotary.clone(), vb_l.pp(i))?);
+        }
+        Ok(Self {
+            embed_tokens,
+            layers,
+            norm: RmsNorm::new(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.rms_norm_eps, vb.pp("model.norm"))?,
+            device: vb.device().clone(),
+            dtype: vb.dtype(),
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        for l in &mut self.layers {
+            l.clear_kv_cache();
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn causal_mask(
+        &self,
+        b: usize,
+        tgt: usize,
+        offset: usize,
+        sw: Option<usize>,
+    ) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let minf = f32::NEG_INFINITY;
+        let mask: Vec<_> = (0..tgt)
+            .flat_map(|i| {
+                (0..(tgt + offset)).map(move |j| {
+                    let past_ok = j <= i + offset;
+                    let sw_ok = match sw {
+                        Some(w) => (i + offset) as i64 - j as i64 <= w as i64,
+                        None => true,
+                    };
+                    if past_ok && sw_ok {
+                        0.
+                    } else {
+                        minf
+                    }
+                })
+            })
+            .collect();
+        Tensor::from_slice(&mask, (b, 1, tgt, tgt + offset), &self.device)?.to_dtype(self.dtype)
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward(&mut self, input: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (b, l) = input.dims2()?;
+        let mut h = self.embed_tokens.forward(input)?;
+
+        let causal = if l == 1 {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(self.causal_mask(b, l, offset, None)?)
+        };
+
+        for layer in &mut self.layers {
+            h = layer.forward(&h, causal.as_ref(), offset)?;
+        }
+        self.norm.forward(&h)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct ModelForCausalLM {
+    base: Model,
+    lm_head: Linear,
+}
+
+impl ModelForCausalLM {
+    pub fn new(cfg: &Config, vb: VarBuilder) -> Result<Self> {
+        let base = Model::new(cfg, vb.clone())?;
+        let lm_head = if cfg.tie_word_embeddings {
+            Linear::from_weights(base.embed_tokens.embeddings().clone(), None)
+        } else {
+            linear_no_bias(cfg.hidden_size, cfg.vocab_size, vb.pp("lm_head"))?
+        };
+        Ok(Self { base, lm_head })
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward(&mut self, input: &Tensor, offset: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let (_, l) = input.dims2()?;
+        self.base
+            .forward(input, offset)?
+            .narrow(1, l - 1, 1)?
+            .apply(&self.lm_head)
+    }
+
+    pub fn clear_kv_cache(&mut self) {
+        self.base.clear_kv_cache();
+    }
+}