Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Alibaba · Released Jul 2025
A 235-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Alibaba that activates 22 billion parameters per token, designed for instruction-following tasks with a 262k-token context window.
- Strengths
- Handles long-context tasks with a quarter-million-token window while maintaining efficiency through sparse activation that keeps per-token computation lower than its dense parameter count would suggest.
- Best for
- General-purpose instruction-following across long documents, reports, and multi-turn conversations where both depth and extended context matter.
- Limitations
- Not optimized for extended reasoning like its Thinking variant, nor for code-heavy workloads like the Coder 480B A35B; smaller 30B variants and faster Flash models handle resource-constrained or code-specific scenarios better.
Input / 1M
$0.22
Output / 1M
$0.88
Cached input / 1M
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Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 144.4% out increased 60.0%
- 90d
- in increased 144.4% out increased 780.0%
- 1y
- in increased 144.4% out increased 780.0%
- Since launch
- in increased 144.4% out increased 780.0%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | $0.22 | $0.88 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 5 Sep 2026 | $0.09 | $0.55 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 1 Sep 2026 | $0.0875 | $0.35 | $0.0175 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Aug 2026 | $0.0875 | $0.35 | $0.0175 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Aug 2026 | $0.35 | $1.40 | $0.07 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 6 Aug 2026 | $0.09 | $0.55 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Aug 2026 | $0.1495 | $0.598 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Jul 2026 | $0.09 | $0.55 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.09 | $0.1 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |