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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Serving precision differs between offers.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 90.3 points · 58% lower measured price · $0.540 / 1M tokens
GLM 5.3 is a further stored option with these losses: no image input
Lifecycle: retirement date · 09 Oct 2026
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,400.7 ± 6.85 · 7,805 votes
- Context window
- 131.07K
- Maximum output
- 32.77K
- Input modalities
- text, image
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.400 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $4.00 / 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 | $0.400/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $4.00/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.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.980/M from Novita.
2 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
| $0.400 | $4.00 | undeclared | 91.61% |
| Novitanovita/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.980 | $3.95 | bf16 | 98.56% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1400.7default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 131K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | always on |
| 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-VL-235B-A22B Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Thinking model is optimized for multimodal reasoning in STEM and math....
Questions this page answers
What does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking cost?
$0.400/M in, $4.00/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking have an independent quality score?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
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 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.980/M from Novita.
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