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
StatusDeprecated
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 · 1 year ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 2 years ago
Deprecation Date

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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
dashscope/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.4$4.00
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI
fireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.22$0.88
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.98$3.95
Qwen AI Platform
qwen_ai_platform/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.4$4.00
Qwencloud
qwencloud/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
$0.4$4.00

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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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Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
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 Thinking
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct262K$0.150$0.600Available
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking262K$0.150$0.600Deprecated
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking262K$0.220$0.880Current
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct262K$0.200$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
openrouter/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwen_ai_platform/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
qwencloud/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking