Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is a reasoning model from Qwen released on Sep 15, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 33K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.98 per million input tokens and $3.95 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
7 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Merge Gateway.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.98 / $3.95 per 1M
- Context
- 131K
- Max output
- 33K
- Released
- Sep 15, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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 | $0.98 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $3.95 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking providers
7 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Merge Gateway. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | $0.98 | $3.95 | – | 131K | 33K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.287 | $2.87 | $0.0574 | 131K | 33K |
| OrcaRouter | $0.40 | $4 | – | 131K | 41K |
| NanoGPT | $0.50 | $6 | $0.25 | 131K | 33K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.98 | $3.95 | – | 131K | 8K |
| Jalapeno Cloud | $0.98 | $3.95 | – | 131K | 33K |
| LLM Gateway | $0.98 | $3.95 | – | 131K | 33K |
What Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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 VL 235B A22B Thinking through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking questions
How much does the Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking API cost?
$0.98 per million input tokens and $3.95 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 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 32,768 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
7 providers serve it, including Hugging Face, Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.287 per million tokens at Merge Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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 VL 235B A22B Thinking released?
Sep 15, 2025, with training data up to Mar 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
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