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Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Alibaba · Released Jul 2025

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A 235-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Alibaba that activates 22 billion parameters per token, with extended reasoning capabilities and a 131k-token context window.

Strengths
Delivers reasoning depth across a large parameter count while keeping per-token computation efficient through sparse activation.
Best for
Complex problem-solving and multi-step reasoning tasks where model scale and inference speed both matter.
Limitations
Reasoning overhead makes it slower than the non-thinking variant Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507; the 80-billion-parameter Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking offers extended reasoning with a larger context window.

Input / 1M

$0.45

Output / 1M

$3.50

Cached input / 1M

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Context window

128K

Price history

Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price per 1M tokens over timeOutput went from $0.1 to $3.50; Input went from $0.1 to $0.45 between Jun 2026 and Oct 2026.$0$1.00$2.00$3.00$4.00Output on 11 Jun 2026: $0.1Output on 1 Jul 2026: $1.50Output on 20 Jul 2026: $3.00Output on 31 Jul 2026: $2.30Output on 9 Oct 2026: $3.50Out $3.50Input on 11 Jun 2026: $0.1Input on 1 Jul 2026: $0.1495Input on 20 Jul 2026: $0.3Input on 31 Jul 2026: $0.23Input on 9 Oct 2026: $0.45In $0.45Jun 2026Oct 2026

Price change

30d
in increased 95.7% out increased 52.2%
90d
in increased 50.0% out increased 16.7%
1y
in increased 350.0% out increased 3400.0%
Since launch
in increased 350.0% out increased 3400.0%

Snapshots

Effective Input Output Cached in Note Source
9 Oct 2026 $0.45 $3.50 — Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
31 Jul 2026 $0.23 $2.30 — Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
20 Jul 2026 $0.3 $3.00 — Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
1 Jul 2026 $0.1495 $1.50 — Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai
11 Jun 2026 $0.1 $0.1 $0.1 Imported from OpenRouter openrouter.ai

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