Qwen3 235B A22B

Alibaba Qwen chatcodereasoningtool_use

API ID: qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-04-28

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Input Price
$0.18
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.54
/1M tokens

About Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and code tasks, and a "non-thinking" mode for general conversational efficiency. The model demonstrates strong reasoning ability, multilingual support (100+ languages and dialects), advanced instruction-following, and agent tool-calling capabilities. It natively handles a 32K token context window and extends up to 131K tokens using YaRN-based scaling.

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Price Ranking
#777 lowest price among 1240 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
8k
Release Date
2025-04-28
Capabilities
chat code reasoning tool_use
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Complex reasoning, math problems, multi-step logic
  • Code generation, debugging, code review, refactoring
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

Consider Alternatives For

  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
  • Simple Q&A (cheaper models available)

💰 Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.24
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Code Copilot
$2.16
/month
200 completions/day, ~1k tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$7.56
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each
Data Analysis Pipeline
$10.53
/month
500 analyses/day, ~2k tokens each
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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Qwen3 235B A22B API

OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-04-28",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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