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Alibaba ·Proprietary ·Released August 2025·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
unranked
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Speed
#170 of 341
49.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#270 of 450
$1.30
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.40 · Out $4.00
Cache hit price
#275 of 344
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−38%)
Context
#366 of 487
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text, image input, outputs text, and supports a 131k-token context window.

Pricing is $0.40 per 1M input tokens (below the $2.09 average) and $4.00 per 1M output (below the $9.60 average). Cached input reads at $0.25 per 1M, a 38% discount on its input price. At 50 tokens per second it sits in the upper middle of the tracked range.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image
Output modalitytext
Context window131,072 tokens
Max output32,768 tokens
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoffMarch 2025
Tool callingYes
Providers2 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking sits
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Quality

How Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCodingMathematicsReasoning
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, Mock AIME 2024–25, MATH Level 5, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from their publishers; we do not run these evaluations. This model is not in this ranking: it holds no Known Good Index score.

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Quality Breakdown

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking · grey marker = average across tracked models

None of the seven index evaluations have published a score for this model yet.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1400
Elo · 95% CI ±7
#139
of 408 ranked models
8k
votes counted
1395
style-controlled (#153)

Ingested 9 Sep 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better. Ranked against the 450 models priced above zero, which is the population the chart draws; excludes 32 published at no cost (free and promotional tiers).

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Mean output throughput across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Output speedBy provider

Latency

Time to first token, mean across providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, mean across tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking, with their own price and speed

2 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Alibaba · first party $0.40 $4.00 $1.30 56 0.5s 131k
Novita $0.98 $3.95 $1.72 48 0.9s 131k

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index
Blended price $1.30 per 1M · observed 9 Sep 2026
Output speed 50 tok/s · observed 9 Sep 2026
Time to first token 0.9s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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