Qwen 3 235B-A22B
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Input tokens
- $0.46 / 1M tokens (input) Current 2025-04-28 → present
Output tokens
- $1.82 / 1M tokens (output) Current 2025-04-28 → present
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See how →Capability profile
reasoning strong
coding strong
tool use moderate
instruction following strong
context window moderate
multilingual strong
speed moderate
cost efficiency strong
Coding benchmarks
View full leaderboard →| Benchmark | Score | Harness | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| livecodebench ↗ | 70.7% 2025-05 | — | 📄 paper ↗ |
| aider-polyglot ↗ | 59.6% 2025-04 | aider | 📊 leaderboard ↗ |
| swe-bench-pro | 21.4% 2026-01 | swe-agent | 📊 leaderboard ↗ |
Operator guidance
Exceptional open-weights value for reasoning workloads. At $0.455/$1.82 via OpenRouter, it competes with o4-mini on reasoning at ~40% of the cost. Use thinking mode for hard problems, non-thinking for high-volume workloads. The Qwen 3 235B-A22B-2507 variant is available at $0.09/$0.10 for lower cost.
Use cases
- Frontier-quality reasoning tasks at open-weights cost via hosted APIs
- Multilingual enterprise workloads needing a non-Chinese-lab option
- Self-hosted inference where reasoning capability is required
Limitations
- Context window (128K) smaller than Maverick or Scout
- Chinese lab; data-residency or compliance constraints may apply
- Capability ratings are qualitative, not a single cited benchmark run
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