Qwen3 VL 235B A22B is Alibaba's language model with a 256K context window and up to 8K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.53 / 1M input and $2.66 / 1M output. A large-scale vision-language MoE model with 235B total and 22B activated parameters, delivering comprehensive multimodal understanding and generation.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window256K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters235B
Release Date · 11 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#246
Math Index
#46
MMLU-Pro
#55
GPQA
#192
HLE
#209
LiveCodeBench
#121
IFBench
#140
Time to First Token
#45
SciCode
#173
AIME 2025
#46
LCR
#186
TerminalBench Hard
#209
TAU2
#180
Output TPS
#292

Capabilities

Input2/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
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

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qwen.qwen3-vl-235b-a22b
$0.53$2.66$0.26$1.33$0.93$4.66$0.26$1.33
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qwen3-vl-235b-a22b
$0.64$3.20————$0.32$1.60

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 235B A22B, 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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p4de.24xlargeAWS8× A100640 GB$27.45/hr
Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4Azure8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB)640 GB$32.77/hr
g7e.48xlargeAWS8× RTX PRO Server 6000768 GB$33.14/hr
7 more instances can run Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Filetrans————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR Streaming————Available
Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime——$0.230$0.930Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS————Available
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus Realtime——$0.800$6.40Available
Qwen Image 3————Available
Qwen Image 3.0 Pro————Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B256K$0.530$2.66Current

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b
qwen.qwen3-vl-235b-a22b
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-reasoning