Qwen 3 235B — Alibaba | Modeldex

Qwen 3 235B

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Alibaba's frontier open-weight MoE model with hybrid thinking.

Updated 3 days agoStructured data from Modeldex catalog

AgenticOpen source

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Overview

Qwen 3 235B-A22B is Alibaba's largest open-weight model, a mixture-of-experts architecture with 235B total and 22B active parameters. It supports a 'hybrid thinking' mode that can toggle between extended chain-of-thought reasoning and fast direct responses. Apache-2.0 licensed.

History

Qwen 3 235B was released on 2025-04-29.

Training & availability

Weights are publicly available under the Apache-2.0 license, making this an open-weight model suitable for on-prem deployment and fine-tuning.

Capabilities

Context window: 128K tokens.
Max output: 32K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Recommended for: agentic, open-source.

Limitations

Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Quick start

Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen-3-235b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.

Input tokens / month5.0M

@ $0.455/1M

Output tokens / month2.0M

@ $1.82/1M

Input cost

$2.27

5.0M × $0.455/1M

Output cost

$3.64

2.0M × $1.82/1M

Total / month

$5.92

$70.98 / year

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Supported
Structured outputs: Supported

Price vs quality

Mid-tier pricing

Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.

Quality percentile: —
Effective price: $1.48/1M
Pricing breakdown: $0.455/1M in
$1.82/1M out

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