Qwen3-235B-A22B
- In Input modalities: Text Out Output modalities: Text
- Reasoning
- Reasoning can be off
- Tool use
- Structured output
- Open weights
Prices
3 offerings · prices as listedqwen3-235b-a22b| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | $0.70 | $2.80 |
| Reasoning off no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | $2.80 |
| Reasoning on no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | $8.40 |
Prices from qwen3-235b-a22b model (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 5, 2026) · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 11, 2026)
qwen3-235b-a22b| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | $0.287 | $1.147 |
| Reasoning off no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | $1.147 |
| Reasoning on no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | $2.868 |
Prices from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 11, 2026) · qwen3-235b-a22b model (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 5, 2026)
qwen3-235b-a22b| Conditions/ 1M tokens | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Standard no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | ¥2.00 | — |
| Reasoning off no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | ¥8.00 |
| Reasoning on no longer listed since Oct 11, 2026 | — | ¥20.00 |
Prices from 阿里云百炼：模型价格 (opens in a new tab) (checked Oct 6, 2026)
Standard: the price a request with no conditions pays (the headline price elsewhere on the site).
Details
- Max thinking budget
- 38.91K
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Family
- qwen
- Model ID
Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, built-in tools, licence, aliases.
Run locally
Weights: Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B- Parameters 235.1B
- Active 22B · 128 experts, 8 per token
- Native precision BF16
- Layers 94
- KV cache per token 188 KB
- Native context 32K (model card)
- With YaRN 128K (model card)
- Config positions 40K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
- API context 128K (maker’s API)
- Needs
- ≈ 123.6 GB (weights 116.3 + KV cache 1.5 + overhead 5.8)
- Usable
- 21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
- Try
- IQ2_XXS runs (needs system memory), but below 4 bits quality drops noticeably
| Precision | Weights | Needs at 8K | On your hardware | Longest context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 (native)maker’s file | 437.9 GB | ≈ 461.3 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q8_0maker’s file | 232.8 GB | ≈ 245.9 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| FP8maker’s file | 222.6 GB | ≈ 235.2 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q6_Kmaker’s file | 179.8 GB | ≈ 190.2 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q5_K_Mmaker’s file | 155.4 GB | ≈ 164.6 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q5_0maker’s file | 150.8 GB | ≈ 159.8 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q4_K_Mmaker’s file | 132.4 GB | ≈ 140.5 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q4_0 | 123.2 GB | ≈ 130.8 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ)maker’s file | 116.0 GB | ≈ 123.3 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| IQ4_XS | 116.3 GB | ≈ 123.6 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q3_K_Mquality drops | 107.0 GB | ≈ 113.8 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| IQ3_XXSquality drops | 83.7 GB | ≈ 89.4 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| Q2_Kquality drops | 82.1 GB | ≈ 87.7 | ✕Doesn’t fit | — |
| IQ2_XXSquality drops | 56.4 GB | ≈ 60.7 | ○Needs system memory 12–18 tok/s | — |
Click a row to choose a precision. “Maker’s file” sizes are the maker’s own files; others are parameters × bits per weight.
Compared with other hardware
Each at the highest precision it runs. Click one for details.
Smallest that runs it (Q4_K_M, 8K): GPU NVIDIA B200 (HGX B200); unified memory Apple M5 Ultra (64-core GPU) · 256 GB.
Run commands
The maker publishes no files at this precision. Choose its native precision or one of its own builds, or quantise it yourself with llama.cpp.
Memory to fine-tune
Batch 1, 2,048-token sequences, gradient checkpointing; LoRA and QLoRA train rank-16 adapters on the attention projections.
Estimates; facts from the maker’s Hugging Face repositories, as of 2026-11-06. How it’s estimated
Cited scores
From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us- Epoch Capabilities Index 138.4
#101 of 118 listed models · CI 136–140.8
- LMArena Text 1,375
#115 of 163 listed models · CI 1,370–1,380 · 25,950 votes
- Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 70.7%
#95 of 168 listed models · ±2.71
- Epoch AI · MATH Level 5 68.9%
#26 of 64 listed models · ±0.95
- Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 18 – Nov 5, 2026
- LMArena (Arena), leaderboard-dataset on Hugging Face, licensed CC BY 4.0 · License · as of Oct 28, 2026
- changes we made
Changes
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Sources
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 11, 2026
- 阿里云百炼：模型价格in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Oct 6, 2026
- qwen3-235b-a22b 模型信息-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Oct 6, 2026
- 模型上下架与更新-大模型服务平台百炼-阿里云_大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-大模型服务平台百炼(Model Studio)-阿里云帮助中心in Chinese (opens in a new tab) help.aliyun.com · checked Oct 30, 2026
- qwen3-235b-a22b model (opens in a new tab) alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 5, 2026
- models.dev: qwen3-235b-a22b (community data, MIT) (opens in a new tab) github.com · checked Sep 30, 2026
- qwen3-235b-a22b (opens in a new tab) docs.modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com · checked Oct 8, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B model card (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 3, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B config.json (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-FP8 files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GGUF files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-GPTQ-Int4 files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 2, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-MLX-4bit files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-MLX-6bit files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-MLX-8bit files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Oct 31, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-MLX-bf16 files (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 1, 2026
- Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B README.md (opens in a new tab) huggingface.co · checked Nov 4, 2026
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