Qwen3 235B A22B — Alibaba | Modeldex

Qwen3 235B A22B

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Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and...

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Knowledge cutoff

Mar 31, 2025(1.1 years ago)

API release

Apr 28, 2025(12 months ago)

Not enough benchmark coverage yet for an Intelligence Index — needs at least 3 results across 2 categories.

Overview

History

Qwen3 235B A22B became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-04-28.

Training & availability

Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.

Capabilities

Context window: 131K tokens.
Input modalities: text.

Limitations

The knowledge cutoff is 12 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.

Pricing

Input: $0.4550 per 1M tokens
Output: $1.8200 per 1M tokens

Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.

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/qwen3-235b-a22b",
    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

Popularity

Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.

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HuggingFace downloads

561.7K/ month

HuggingFace likes

1.1K

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Score	Source
Aider PolyglotCoding	59.6% pass@2	Third-party Papers With Code

Integrations & tooling support

Tool calling: Not supported
Structured outputs: Not supported

Price vs quality

Great value

Strong performance at mid-tier pricing.

Quality percentile: 76.2%
Effective price: $1.48/1M
Pricing breakdown: $0.455/1M in
$1.82/1M out

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