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.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusDeprecated
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesImagePDFText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters235B
HuggingFace Likes404
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)56,151
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)464,961
Release Date · 12 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Deprecation Date

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
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.23$2.30$0.115$1.15
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
$0.3$2.90
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
$0.22$0.88
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
novita:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
$0.3$3.00
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
$0.3$3.00
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
$0.149$1.50
Together AI logo
Together AI
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
$0.65$3.00
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.4$4.00
Weights & Biases logo
Weights & Biases
wandb/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
$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)
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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
p4de.24xlargeAWS8× A100640 GB$27.45/hrus-east-1
Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4Azure8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB)640 GB$32.77/hrwestus2
g7e.48xlargeAWS8× RTX PRO Server 6000768 GB$33.14/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
MiroThinker 1.7Available
Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking262K$0.130$0.900Available
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.070$0.270Available
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.100$0.300Available
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking262K$0.149$0.880Current
Qwen3 Coder1.0M$0.300$1.00Deprecating
Qwen3 30B A3B131K$0.051$0.200Deprecated
Qwen3 235B A22B262K$0.090$0.540Available
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct262K$0.220$1.30Available
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct262K$0.090$0.580Available
KwaiPilot KAT Coder262K$0.900$0.900Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
alibaba-qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking
alibaba/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
novita/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507
together_ai/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
wandb/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507