Qwen3 VL 235b A22B specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Qwen3 VL 235b A22B
Author: Alibaba

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Sep 23, 2025

Provider: Alibaba
Release date: Sep 23, 2025; Pricing
Parameters: 236B total, 22B active per token; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.2 in / $0.88 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 3 priced API routes · AWS Bedrock (10 regions) · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 471 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 236 GB at 8-bit, about 118 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
71	Vision ArenaVision · as “Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct”	Vision	1,215	85

Versions and release history

6 versions in this line since Feb 1, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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