MODEL PROOF
Qwen3 235B A22B
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 124.4 points · 32% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is a further stored option with these losses: no extended reasoning
Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,366.6 ± 4.71 · 25,825 votes
- Context window
- 131.07K
- Maximum output
- 8.19K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.455 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.82 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Alibaba: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.455/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.82/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba Endpoint terms
| $0.455 | $1.82 | undeclared | 98.35% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1366.6default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Data visualisation #108 1004
- UI components #112 964
- Websites #114 1037
- Code categories #114 1006
- 3D #114 866
- Game development #120 940
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 131K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Retirement scheduled for 2026-10-09. Do not start new work on it.
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and...
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3 235B A22B cost?
$0.455/M in, $1.82/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3 235B A22B have an independent quality score?
Qwen3 235B A22B has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3 235B A22B?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Qwen3 235B A22B?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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