Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 16K output tokens, starting at $0.22 / 1M input and $0.88 / 1M output. A 235-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM from Alibaba's Qwen3 series activating 22B parameters per token, with improvements in instruction following, logical reasoning, and tool use.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-235b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters235B
Release Date · 1 year ago

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
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Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen-3-235b
$0.22$0.88

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507, 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.

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FP16 (full precision)
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Cheapest region
p4de.24xlargeAWS8× A100640 GB$27.45/hrus-east-1
Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4Azure8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB)640 GB$32.77/hreastus
g7e.48xlargeAWS8× RTX PRO Server 6000768 GB$33.14/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime$0.413$4.13Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime$0.688$5.50Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSAvailable
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B InstructAvailable
Qwen3.7 Plus1.0M$0.320$1.28Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.04$6.24Available
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.150$0.500Available
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.140$0.450Available
Qwen3.6 Plus1.0M$0.325$1.95Available
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507262K$0.220$0.880Current

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-235b
alibaba/qwen-3-235b
vercel_ai_gateway/alibaba/qwen-3-235b