Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct

Name: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct
Brand: alibaba
SKU: alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct

alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct·Deprecated·Open weights·qwen series

Qwen instruction model for multilingual chat, reasoning, and tool use

At a glance

Reference price$0.22 / $0.88 per 1M

Cache read — · Vertex

Lowest paid$0.13 / $0.60

Abacus Gateway · 1.7× spread

1 more $0 channels

Context262,144

⚠ Providers report 256,000–262,144; the table below is authoritative

Output limit16,384

Capabilities

✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments

⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently

Modalities

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Knowledge cutoff2025-04

Released / updated2025-07-01 / 2025-08-13

Quality & performance

Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.

Available at 3 providers2 with public prices · 1 free

Priced only

Provider	Tier	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Context	Output limit	Status
iFlow	Gateway	Free		—	—	256,000 ⚠	64,000
Abacus Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507	Gateway	$0.13	$0.60	—	—	262,144	8,192
Vertex qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas	First-party	$0.22	$0.88	—	—	262,144	16,384	deprecated

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

Input tokens / month

Output tokens / month

Cache hit rate

Common scenarios

1Abacus$56.00

2Vertex$88.00

1 more channels offer $0 (iFlow); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.

The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Benchmark

No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.

Reasoning control

Upstream provides no control info

2 / 3 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input list $0.22Output list $0.88Min blended $0.247

Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.