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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B vs Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Live dataset updated 10/5/2026, 6:14:38 PM UTC
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|---|---|---|
| ModelCap position | #132 | #204 |
| Index score | 51.0 | 36.3 |
| Evidence | Measured2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards | Estimated3 reported rows against measured corpus ladders (63%); publisher-corpus-prior over 231 held-out anchors (38%); shrunk 10.4 up toward the measured corpus |
| Input / 1M | $0.30 | $0.117 |
| Output / 1M | $1.00 | $0.455 |
| Pricing status | fresh | fresh |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Providers | 5 | 2 |
| Weight access | Open weights | Open weights |
Decision facts
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is #132; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is #204 on the same current language board.
- Index scores are 51.0 for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B and 36.3 for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
- Evidence differs: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is Measured; Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is Estimated.
- Listed output price per 1M tokens is $1.00 for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B and $0.45 for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $1.10 for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B versus $0.46 for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct costs 58.0% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
- Published context is 262,144 tokens for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B and 262,144 for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct.
- ModelCap currently lists 5 providers for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B and 2 for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct.
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