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Qwen3 235B-A22B

alibaba·alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b·GA·Open weights·qwen series
Large open Qwen MoE for multilingual reasoning, coding, and tool use

Qwen3 235B-A22B by alibaba is offered by 12 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 10 of them. Its official list price is $0.70 per 1M input tokens and $2.80 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is NanoGPT at $0.30 / $0.50 per 1M, about 3.5× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.

Artificial Analysis rates it 9.5 on the Intelligence Index. Against its lowest blended price of $0.35 per 1M, that is roughly 27 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 64 tokens per second, with 2.74s to the first token.

The context window is 131,072 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 40,960 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning and tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2025-04.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Alibaba
$0.70 / $2.80
Blended $1.23 · Cache read —
Lowest paid·NanoGPTGateway
$0.30 / $0.50
Blended $0.35 · 3.5× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context
131,072
Output limit
16,384
Knowledge cutoff
2025-04
Released / updated
2025-04 / 2025-04
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextPDF
Weights
Hugging Face

Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3 · rep. tier Reasoning

Intelligence9.5
Value27
Coding—
Agentic—
Output speed64 tok/s
TTFT2.74 s
Value formulaIQ 9.5 ÷ min blended $0.350 = 27
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 8.3 · 64 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 9.5 · 64 tok/s

Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.

Available at 12 providers10 with public prices · 1 free

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
iFlow
qwen3-235b
GatewayFree——128,000 ⚠32,000
NanoGPTGateway$0.30$0.50$0.15—262,144 ⚠16,384
NovitaAI
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8
Gateway$0.20$0.80——40,960 ⚠20,000
Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B
Cloud$0.20$0.80——40,960 ⚠16,384
Jiekou.AI
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8
Gateway$0.20$0.80——40,960 ⚠20,000
Merge GatewayGateway$0.29$1.15$0.057—131,07232,768
Alibaba (China)OfficialFirst-party$0.29$1.15——131,07216,384
Kilo GatewayGateway$0.46$1.82——131,0728,192
OpenRouterGateway$0.46$1.82——131,0728,192
302.AIGateway$0.29$2.86——128,000 ⚠16,384
AlibabaOfficialFirst-party$0.70$2.80——131,07216,384
QiniuGateway————128,000 ⚠32,000hostTable.undisclosed

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.

Reasoning control

Toggle (on / off)budget_tokenseffort = noneeffort = high

4 / 12 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$67.00
2NovitaAI$80.00
3Hugging Face$80.00
4Jiekou.AI$80.00
5Merge Gateway$87.20
6Alibaba (China) · Official$114.75

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

Switch to NanoGPT to save $47.75/mo (42%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$2.80$02026-08-052026-09-242026-08-05 · Input list $0.702026-08-06 · Input list $0.702026-08-07 · Input list $0.702026-08-08 · Input list $0.702026-08-09 · Input list $0.702026-08-10 · Input list $0.702026-08-11 · Input list $0.702026-08-12 · Input list $0.702026-08-13 · Input list $0.292026-09-24 · Input list $0.702026-08-05 · Output list $2.802026-08-06 · Output list $2.802026-08-07 · Output list $2.802026-08-08 · Output list $2.802026-08-09 · Output list $2.802026-08-10 · Output list $2.802026-08-11 · Output list $2.802026-08-12 · Output list $2.802026-08-13 · Output list $1.152026-09-24 · Output list $2.802026-08-05 · Min blended $0.352026-08-06 · Min blended $0.352026-08-07 · Min blended $0.352026-08-08 · Min blended $0.352026-08-09 · Min blended $0.352026-08-10 · Min blended $0.352026-08-11 · Min blended $0.352026-08-12 · Min blended $0.352026-08-13 · Min blended $0.352026-09-24 · Min blended $0.35

Benchmark2 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
Aider Polyglot—59.6percent correctSource ↗
SWE-Bench Prodataset: public21.41resolve rateSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Artificial Analysis evaluations11 items

GPQA Diamond70.0%
Humanity's Last Exam11.0%
MMLU-Pro82.8%
LiveCodeBench62.2%
Terminal-Bench Hard6.1%
AIME 202582.0%
AIME84.0%
MATH-50093.0%
τ²-Bench Telecom24.0%
AA-LCR0.0%
IFBench38.7%

Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.

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Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Alibaba official docs ↗