Qwen3-235B

4.50
Alibaba MoE model achieving high-quality reasoning at low cost with 22B active parameters.
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CompanyAlibaba
Context128K~256K
Released2025-04
Updated2026-07-31

Qwen3-235B Overview

Qwen3-235B is Alibaba’s flagship ultra-large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, featuring powerful logical reasoning, code generation, and multilingual processing capabilities. It also supports long-context understanding, enabling efficient handling of complex texts, programming tasks, and enterprise-level knowledge application scenarios. Thanks to its sparse activation architecture, it balances high performance with inference efficiency, making it suitable for complex automation systems such as AI programming assistants, intelligent customer service, enterprise knowledge bases, content generation, and AI agents. It represents the next-generation large model for general-purpose intelligence and industrial-grade applications.

Qwen3-235B Pricing

PlanPriceDescription
Qwen Cloud Official API Input: $0.455 / Output: $1.82 per 1M tokens Official API access through Alibaba Cloud. Supports a 131K-token context window and uses a 235B-parameter MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) architecture. Designed for enterprise applications, AI assistants, and large-scale AI deployments.
API Thinking Mode Input: $0.70 / Output: $8.40 per 1M tokens Enhanced reasoning mode with advanced inference capabilities. Output pricing is higher due to additional reasoning token usage. Ideal for complex analysis, mathematical reasoning, coding, and other advanced AI tasks.
Third-Party API Providers Starting from $0.20 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens Access open-source Qwen3-235B through third-party platforms such as Novita AI and Parasail at competitive pricing. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, enabling commercial use, self-hosting, and customized AI solutions.

Qwen3-235B Key Features

1. Strong reasoning ability; stable performance in math, logic analysis, and multi-step problems; ideal for handling complex tasks rather than just simple Q&A.
2. Outstanding coding ability; proficient in frontend and backend development, multi-language programming, debugging, and refactoring; very suitable for development assistant tools or AI programming agents.
3. Strong multilingual capability; evenly supports Chinese, English, and multiple other languages; well-suited for global products or cross-language content processing.
4. Excellent long-context handling; capable of tackling long documents, codebases, or complex materials; ideal for knowledge bases, contract analysis, thesis organization, and similar scenarios.
5. High cost-efficiency from the MoE architecture; lowers compute cost while maintaining capability; makes it more suitable for large-scale deployment and enterprise applications.

Summary

1. AI development and programming scenarios, such as code generation, bug fixing, interface design, script automation, etc. — it can be used as a development assistant or an AI programming agent.
2. Enterprise-level knowledge processing scenarios, such as internal knowledge base Q&A, document retrieval and summarization, contract or report analysis — particularly suitable for handling long texts and complex information structures.
3. Content production and operations scenarios, including SEO article generation, multilingual content creation, e-commerce product descriptions, marketing copy, etc. — suited for large-scale content production.
4. Complex reasoning and decision support scenarios, such as business analysis, solution comparison, strategy planning, data logic deduction, etc.
5. AI Agent and automation systems, such as automated customer service, process automation tools, API-calling intelligent assistants, etc.

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