alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22bOpen WeightsLarge open Qwen MoE for multilingual reasoning, coding, and tool use
Benchmark Pricing$0.70 / 1M in$2.80 / 1M out
Context: 131,072 tokens•Max Output: 16,384 tokens•Knowledge: 2025-04•Released: 2025-04-28
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Context Window131,072131.1K tokens
Max Output16,38416.4K tokens
LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable
Input Modalities
Text
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema
MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS
✓ Qwen3 235B-A22B natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.
MCP Context Window Recommendations
With a context capacity of 131,072 tokens, this model can handle moderately large MCP tool definitions and multi-turn conversation logs comfortably.
STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS
Aider Polyglotpercent correct
59.6SWE-Bench Proresolve rate
21.41API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE
// Example: Calling Qwen3 235B-A22B via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.ALIBABA_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);PRICING BY PROVIDER
Alibabaqwen3-235b-a22b
$0.70 / $2.80
Cortecsqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.20 / $0.60$0.02 cache
NanoGPTqwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.09 / $0.35$0.02 cache
Scalewayqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.84 / $2.52
GreenPTqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$1.03 / $3.08
302.AIqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.29 / $1.14
LLM Gatewaynovita/qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8
$0.20 / $0.80
Venice AIqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.15 / $0.75
Eden AIscaleway/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.84 / $2.53
Merge Gatewayqwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
$0.10 / $0.60$0.06 cache
Hugging FaceQwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B
$0.20 / $0.80
Amazon Bedrockqwen.qwen3-235b-a22b-2507-v1:0
$0.22 / $0.88
Kilo Gatewayqwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
$0.45 / $3.50
Vertexqwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas
$0.22 / $0.88
DevPass (LLM Gateway)qwen3-235b-a22b-fp8
$0.20 / $0.80
Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.
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