Qwen3 235B-A22B
Qwen3 235B-A22B is a reasoning model from Qwen released on Apr 1, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 16K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
10 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Scaleway and DevPass (LLM Gateway). The lowest input price is $0.20 per million tokens at Hugging Face.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.70 / $2.80 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 16K
- Released
- Apr 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3 235B-A22B pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.70 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $2.80 / 1M tokens | |
| Reasoning tokens | $8.40 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3 235B-A22B providers
10 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Scaleway and DevPass (LLM Gateway). The lowest input price is $0.20 per million tokens at Hugging Face. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba First party | $0.70 | $2.80 | – | 131K | 16K |
| Hugging Face | $0.20 | $0.80 | – | 41K | 16K |
| Scaleway | $0.75 | $2.25 | – | 260K | 16K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.20 | $0.80 | – | 41K | 8K |
| Jiekou.AI | $0.20 | $0.80 | – | 41K | 20K |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.287 | $1.15 | – | 131K | 16K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.287 | $1.15 | $0.0574 | 131K | 33K |
| 302.AI | $0.29 | $2.86 | – | 128K | 16K |
| NanoGPT | $0.30 | $0.50 | $0.15 | 262K | 16K |
| Qiniu | n/a | n/a | – | 128K | 32K |
What Qwen3 235B-A22B costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3 235B-A22B through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3 235B-A22B questions
How much does the Qwen3 235B-A22B API cost?
$0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen3 235B-A22B?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 16,384 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3 235B-A22B?
10 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Scaleway and DevPass (LLM Gateway). The lowest input price is $0.20 per million tokens at Hugging Face. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen3 235B-A22B support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3 235B-A22B open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen3 235B-A22B released?
Apr 1, 2025, with training data up to Apr 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3 235B-A22B?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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