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MODEL PROOF # Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen · 28 Apr 2025 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.796** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) · Δ score 124.4 points · 32% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens [Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507](/models/qwen__qwen3-235b-a22b-2507/) is a further stored option with these losses: no extended reasoning Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026 Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) 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](#billing-details) 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Alibaba alibaba Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 8,192 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.88% | Input $0.455 | Output $1.82 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 98.35% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1366.6 default | | --- | --- | 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](https://designarena.ai), 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B. Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [MiMo-V2.6-Pro](/models/xiaomi__mimo-v2.6-pro/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507](/models/qwen__qwen3-235b-a22b-2507/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking](/models/qwen__qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking/) - Same vendor [Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507](/models/qwen__qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/) - Qwen models [Qwen](/providers/qwen/) - Where this model appears [deprecations](/deprecations/) - Nearby on the capability axis [o1](/models/openai__o1/) - Same vendor [Qwen3 32B](/models/qwen__qwen3-32b/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [gpt-oss-120b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) - Same vendor [Qwen3.5-35B-A3B](/models/qwen__qwen3.5-35b-a3b/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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