Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B pricing and alternatives

Paid / limited

Available from OpenRouter

★★★★★★★★★★ 3.5 Benchmark-backed score

Large open Qwen MoE for multilingual reasoning, coding, and tool use

Paid / limitedOpenAI compatibleReasoningTool callingJSON modeTextReasoning

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API Details

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Base URL

https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Model ID

qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

API format OpenAI Chat Completions + OpenAI Responses

Technical Details

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B specifications

Provider and model catalog

Context window 131K

Max output 8K

Status Online

Family qwen

Knowledge cutoff 2025-03-31

Released Apr 1, 2025

Last updated Oct 6, 2026

Free listing since Apr 28, 2025

Input text

Output text

Capabilities reasoning, tool calling, structured output, temperature control

Open weights Yes

Weights Hugging Face

External benchmark references

Benchmark	Score	Metric	Date
Aider Polyglot	59.6	percent correct	2025-05-09
SWE-Bench Pro	21.41	resolve rate	Not listed

AI Recommendation

Should you use Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B?

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B is listed for chat workloads and supports a 131K context window.

Use the comparison and availability sections before choosing this listing, because it is not currently marked as free.

Best for

Chat

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Long context window
Reasoning mode listed
Tool calling support
Structured JSON output

Watch outs

No current free listing on this provider
Free-tier rate limits apply
Vision support is not listed

Benchmark Overview

Benchmark signals for Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B

Measured data

Intelligence General reasoning and instruction following

12/100

Coding Programming and code generation

17.4/100

Agentic Tool use and multi-step tasks

18.4/100

Speed Observed generation speed

60 tok/s

Context Maximum listed context window

131K

Pricing

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B pricing per 1M tokens

Provider pricing

Input $0.23 per 1M tokens

Output $0.92 per 1M tokens

Access Not listed OpenRouter

Rate limit 200 req/day (free tier) provider policy

Availability

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B availability by provider

Current provider only

We only found this qwen3-235b-a22b listing on OpenRouter in the current catalog. Use the related models section for nearby alternatives.

Provider	Model listing	Access	Context	API	Limits
OpenRouter	Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B	Paid	131K	OpenAI-style	200 req/day (free tier)

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Compare

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B alternatives to consider

Open comparison

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Typical Use Cases

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B use cases

Chat

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B is tagged for chat in this catalog and works with OpenAI-compatible client libraries.

FAQ

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B free API FAQ

Is Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B free to use?

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B is not currently marked as free on OpenRouter.

What is the Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B model ID?

The model ID shown in this catalog is qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b.

What are the Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B free tier rate limits on OpenRouter?

The listed free tier limit is 200 req/day (free tier). Limits can change per account tier, so confirm against the provider dashboard.

What context window does Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B support?

The listed context window is 131K tokens with up to 8K output tokens.

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