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

> Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: $0.210/M in, $1.90/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen · released 2025-09-23

 $0.632 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 | $0.210 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $1.90 /M |
| Cached input | $0.100 /M |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1420.9 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 | 262K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 33K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-03-31 |

### Provenance

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

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table...