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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is a language model from Qwen, released in September 2025, with multimodal input.

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking is the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series, featuring 236B parameters with MoE architecture for reasoning-enhanced multimodal understanding. Key capabilities include: Visual Agent (operates

Input
TextImageVideo
Output
Text

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

How Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking performs across real-world prompt categories.

Performance by conversation depth

How Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking pricing

Providers

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking starts at $0.450 per million input tokens and $3.49 per million output tokens via DeepInfra. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.450$3.49262.1K/262.1K
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Novita logoNovita
$0.980$3.95131.1K/32.8K
/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking model size

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has 236 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
236BMoE
Frontier (200B+)
236B
1B7B70B405B

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking context window

Input and output token limits for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
262Ktokens
262Ktokens
394 pages of text
262K
8K128K1M

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking API

Available from the model provider

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking latency

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking examples

Recent arena outputs from Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking license

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 236.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
236.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking resources

Official sources for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking: api documentation, official playground, paper or system card, official launch post, source repository, model weights.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking are GPT-5 Medium, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, K-EXAONE-236B-A23B. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Models ranked just above and below Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking by LLM Stats score.

 

GPT-5 Medium

Score pending
 

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Score pending
 

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B

Score pending
 

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Score pending
 

Sarvam-105B

Score pending
 

GLM-4.7

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking.

When was Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking released?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking was released on September 22, 2025 by Qwen. This is the official Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking cost?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking pricing starts at $0.45 per million input tokens and $3.49 per million output tokens via DeepInfra, the lowest price among tracked providers.

Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking available via API?

Yes, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details. It is served by 2 providers tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has 236 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking was created by Qwen.

What is the license for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking multimodal?

Yes, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is available through 2 providers including DeepInfra, Novita.

Where is the Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking paper or technical report?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has a paper or technical report available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09388. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking against?

Common Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking comparisons include Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking vs GPT-5 Medium, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking vs K-EXAONE-236B-A23B. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.