Qwen 3 235B
ActiveAlibaba's frontier open-weight MoE model with hybrid thinking.
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
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Context window: 128K tokens.
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Max output: 32K tokens.
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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.
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Structured outputs
- Supported
Price vs quality
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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