Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 33K output tokens, available from 9 providers, starting at $0.149 / 1M input and $0.88 / 1M output. A thinking-mode variant of the Qwen3 235B A22B MoE model that scales chain-of-thought reasoning depth for improved quality on complex tasks.
Capabilities
Input3/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling✓
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Batch | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.23 | $2.30 | $0.115 | $1.15 | |
| $0.3 | $2.90 | — | — | |
| $0.22 | $0.88 | — | — | |
| $0.3 | $3.00 | — | — | |
| $0.3 | $3.00 | — | — | |
| $0.149 | $1.50 | — | — | |
| $0.65 | $3.00 | — | — | |
| $0.4 | $4.00 | — | — | |
| $10.00 | $10.00 | — | — | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 564 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p4de.24xlarge | 8× A100 | 640 GB | $27.45/hr | us-east-1 | ||
| Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4 | 8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB) | 640 GB | $32.77/hr | westus2 | ||
| g7e.48xlarge | 8× RTX PRO Server 6000 | 768 GB | $33.14/hr | us-east-1 | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiroThinker 1.7 | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking | 262K | $0.130 | $0.900 | Available | |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 262K | $0.070 | $0.270 | Available | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct | 262K | $0.100 | $0.300 | Available | |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking | 262K | $0.149 | $0.880 | Current | |
| Qwen3 Coder | 1.0M | $0.300 | $1.00 | Deprecating | |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | 131K | $0.051 | $0.200 | Deprecated | |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | 262K | $0.090 | $0.540 | Available | |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct | — | 262K | $0.220 | $1.30 | Available |
| Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct | — | 262K | $0.090 | $0.580 | Available |
| KwaiPilot KAT Coder | — | 262K | $0.900 | $0.900 | Available |