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Qwen3 235B-A22B

Revisado por el equipo de investigación de GetInfoUsÚltima revisión: October 2026Política editorial
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83
Intelligence Index

de Alibaba landmark 235B abierto MoE modelo fundacional achieving de frontera rendimiento con 22B activo inferencia eficiencia.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Category
open-source
Release Date
2025-04
Knowledge Cutoff
February 2025
Architecture
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Autoregressive Transformer
Parameters
235B total (22B active MoE)
Context Window
131K tokens
Max Output
16K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
Standard rate
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
Visit Official Docs ↗

Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Permissive Open-Weights (Apache 2.0 / MIT Commercial)
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2027+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
146 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 505 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Qwen3 235B-A22B Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
Free ($0)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Open-weights or free-tier model: $0 API license cost when self-hosted.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Qwen3 235B-A22B (Active)
$0.00
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Qwen3 235B-A22B:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$13.50/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (56)Reasoning (77)Knowledge (82)Speed (45)Context (75)Cost Value (98)
Qwen3 235B-A22B2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
48.5%
GPQA Diamond
67%
MMLU-Pro
81.5%
HumanEval
91%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1365pts

Strengths

  • insignia inteligencia con 22B activo inferencia velocidad y resource eficiencia
  • superior code arquitectura comprensión y repositorio-level refactorización
  • Completely de pesos abiertos allowing en-premises empresarial air-gapped implementación

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • requiere clustered GPU infraestructura para completo unquantized weights
  • pensamiento modo produces lengthy traces que increase memoria cache huella

Editorial Assessment

un monumental abierto MoE lanzamiento que challenged propietario cerrado modelos un través de todos core pruebas de rendimiento.

Best for: empresarial autohospedado ingeniería de software, privado datos análisis, y advanced investigación

Frequently Asked Questions about Qwen3 235B-A22B

How much does the Qwen3 235B-A22B API cost per 1M tokens?+

Qwen3 235B-A22B by Alibaba is priced at $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 0% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Qwen3 235B-A22B pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Qwen3 235B-A22B's context window?+

Qwen3 235B-A22B features a 131K tokens context window, which equals approximately 98,304 English words or ~262 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 16,384 tokens.

Can I run Qwen3 235B-A22B locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, Qwen3 235B-A22B (235B total (22B active MoE)) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does Alibaba train on data sent to the Qwen3 235B-A22B API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Permissive Open-Weights (Apache 2.0 / MIT Commercial). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does Qwen3 235B-A22B perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Qwen3 235B-A22B achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 83/100, scoring 48.5% on SWE-bench Verified, 67% on GPQA Diamond, 81.5% on MMLU-Pro, and 1365 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Qwen3 235B-A22B best used for?+

Qwen3 235B-A22B is best suited for: empresarial autohospedado ingeniería de software, privado datos análisis, y advanced investigación. Assessment: un monumental abierto MoE lanzamiento que challenged propietario cerrado modelos un través de todos core pruebas de rendimiento.

Las puntuaciones de benchmarks, precios por token y límites de tasa evolucionan rápidamente. Verifique siempre las especificaciones actuales en la documentación oficial del proveedor.

Fuentes: Qwen3 Technical Report & Hugging Face↗