Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Sep 23, 2025Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen vision-language instruct model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.30per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.55per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.30per million tokens
- Output
- $1.55per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.613cheaper than 55% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $1.38 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $15.25 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $152.50 |
Median of 12 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct yet.
The details
- Lab
- Alibaba (Qwen)
- Released
- Sep 23, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 31, 2025
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 12 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct cost?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs $0.30 input / $1.55 output per million tokens (median across 12 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.613 per million tokens, cheaper than 55% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct yet.
Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct support?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct on Sep 23, 2025. Its training data runs to Mar 31, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are MiniMax-M2 (MiniMax, $0.30 / $1.20), GPT-5.1 Codex mini (OpenAI, $0.25 / $2.00), Mistral Medium 3.1 (Mistral AI, $0.40 / $2.00) and Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT (AI Singapore, $0.351 / $0.555).