Qwen3 235B A22B
ActiveQwen3-235B-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...
Overview
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...
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
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Context window: 131K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 12 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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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.
Popularity
Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.
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
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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