Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Alibaba · Released Jul 2025
A 480-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts code-specialized model from Alibaba that activates 35 billion parameters per token with a 262k-token context window.
- Strengths
- Handles long-context code tasks and software engineering workflows with a large active parameter count tuned for code generation and comprehension.
- Best for
- Complex code generation, multi-file refactoring, and long-context software engineering tasks that benefit from an extended context window and code-specialized training.
- Limitations
- A dense specialized model; for lightweight or real-time code tasks, Qwen3 Coder Flash offers faster inference with a smaller footprint.
Input / 1M
$0.3
Output / 1M
$1.00
Cached input / 1M
$0.1
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in — out —
- 90d
- in — out —
- 1y
- in increased 36.4% out decreased 44.4%
- Since launch
- in increased 36.4% out decreased 44.4%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Jul 2026 | $0.3 | $1.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Jul 2026 | $0.3 | $1.00 | $0.1 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.22 | $1.80 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |