Alibaba (Qwen) · Released Sep 23, 2025Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
Qwen vision-language thinking model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.40per 1M tokens
- Output
- $4.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.40per million tokens
- Output
- $4.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $1.30pricier than 61% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $2.80 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $30.00 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $300.00 |
Median of 9 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 9 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking cost?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking costs $0.40 input / $4.00 output per million tokens (median across 9 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $1.30 per million tokens, more expensive than 61% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking 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 Thinking?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking yet.
Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking open source?
Yes. Alibaba (Qwen) publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking support?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking accepts text and images and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling and can return structured JSON output.
When was Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking released?
Alibaba (Qwen) released Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking on Sep 23, 2025. Its training data runs to Mar 31, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Apertus 70B (Swiss AI, $0.82 / $2.42), GLM-4.6 (Z.ai (Zhipu), $0.60 / $2.20), Ling-1T (inclusionAI, $0.57 / $2.29) and Nova 2 Lite (Amazon, $0.33 / $2.75).