Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 33K output tokens, available from 5 providers, starting at $0.22 / 1M input and $0.88 / 1M output. A thinking-mode vision-language MoE model with 235B total and 22B activated parameters, combining enhanced visual perception with extended chain-of-thought reasoning.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output33K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters235B
HuggingFace Likes389
HuggingFace Downloads (30d)270,750
HuggingFace Downloads (all-time)3,463,640
Release Date · 10 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago

Capabilities

Input2/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.4$4.00$0.2$2.00
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.22$0.88
Hugging Face logo
Hugging Face
novita:qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.98$3.95
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.98$3.95
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.26$2.60

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3 VL 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.

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FP16 (full precision)
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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 VL 235B A22B Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.130$0.520Available
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking262K$0.130$0.600Available
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking262K$0.220$0.880Current
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct262K$0.210$0.880Available

Model IDs

accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
alibaba-qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
dashscope/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking