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# Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B: $0.455/M in, $1.82/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen · released 2025-04-28

 $0.796 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.455 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.82 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1366 default |
| --- | --- |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...