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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Current board #94Arena #154Official publisher releaseOpen weights

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is ModelCap current-board rank #94 with Index 52.1 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking listed OpenRouter input price is $0.40 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $4.00 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has a published context limit of 131K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has 2 published OpenRouter serving endpoints, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking weight access is open weights, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.

Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology

ModelCap Index · Current board
52.1#94
Measured · 58% support · score interval 46.8–57.4
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Market Gravity
16.8
Secondary market signal
Input
$0.40
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.00
per 1M tokens
Context
131K
tokens
Providers
2
endpoints
Gateway spend
latest · Vercel share

Providers

Uptime measured over the last 30 minutes
ProviderInputOutputContextQuantUptime
Novitabf16Cheapest$0.98$3.95131Kbf16
Alibaba$0.40$4.00131K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Exact repository identity

Provider economics and telemetry published by the Hugging Face Router. These are operational signals, not benchmark results.

ProviderInputOutputContextTTFTThroughputFeatures
novita
live
$0.98$3.95131K979 ms60.0 tok/stools
featherless-ai
live

ModelCap Index · Current board

Methodology
52.1
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
Current board
#94
Public rank basis
Measured (measured)
Index support
58.3% · strong
Index interval
46.8–57.4
Rank posterior
Not available
Top 5 / Top 10 probability
Not available / Not available
Posterior as of
Snapshot timestamp unavailable
Evidence as of
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Identity binding
Exact catalogue product · qwen/qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking@6664affde68449468deb7527186455c7450c13c0 (not the evaluation revision)
Index observations used
2
Qualified Index evidence point
52.1
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only

BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.

Observed capability
52.1
Evidence status
confirmed · 76% mass
General preference
51.9
Coding
53.7
Agents & tools
Reasoning
Evidence breadth
92%
Evidence coverage
58%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
4.2
Liquidity (providers × uptime)
46.6
Open reach (HF downloads)
10.1
Surface (context / tools / modalities)
85.2
Freshness
25.1
  • · OpenRouter popularity #252
  • · 2 live providers
  • · HF 30d downloads 10904
  • · Catalogue: context 131072, reasoning, tools, modalities Text/Image
  • · First seen 2025-09-23

These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.

BES evidence selected · measured input only

The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.

Deployment readiness

Metadata index
83.9
strong · 94% metadata coverage
Not capability
Artifact reproducibility
85.0
Access & legal clarity
100.0
Deployability
94.3
Evaluation provenance
50.5

Missing: artifactReproducibility.base-lineage, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.

A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.

Market activity

Venue coverage
Market Gravity
16.8
OpenRouter weekly popularity
#252 of 322

Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.

Arena preference

Status
Ranked
Source
LMArena
Official rank
#154 of 402
Rating
1395.2
95% confidence interval
1388–1402
Votes
8K
Source published at
13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Category
overall
Identity match confidence
100%

Market Gravity breakdown

Usage55%
4.2

OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.

Liquidity25%
46.6

Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.

Open reach15%
10.1

Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.

Freshness5%
25.1

Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.

Specification

Context window
131K tokens
Max output
33K tokens
Inputs
Text, Image
Outputs
Text
Tokenizer
Qwen3
Cached input tokens
Not offered
First seen on OpenRouter
23 Sept 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2025-03-31

Capabilities

  • Supported: Reasoning
  • Supported: Tool use
  • Supported: Structured output
  • Supported: Response format
  • Not supported: Moderated

Weights & access

Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.

Access
Open weights
Licence
apache-2.0
Pinned revision
6664affde684
Parameters
235.7B
Architecture
Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Model type
qwen3_vl_moe
Hugging Face downloads (30d)
11K
Downloads (all time)
3.5M
Likes
404
Repository updated
26 Nov 2025, 13:18 UTC

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking: common questions

How does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking rank among AI models?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking holds ModelCap Index position #94 of 248 ranked language models as of 22 September 2026, with an Index score of 52.1 (interval 46.8–57.4); evidence: measured. The Index combines public benchmark boards with published uncertainty; the methodology page explains the weighting.

How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking cost per 1M tokens?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is listed at $0.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026; the lowest output price among 2 providers is $3.95 on Novita. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $2.80 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.

What is the context window of Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has a published context window of 131K tokens (131,072) and a maximum output of 33K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.

Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking open-weight?

Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking on Hugging Face.

Which API providers serve Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?

2 providers serve Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: Alibaba and Novita. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.

Which benchmarks has Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking been evaluated on?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking has published results on 1 public board tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1453 (#139 of 397). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.

How does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking compare with North Mini Code?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking ranks #94 (Index 52.1) and North Mini Code ranks #95 (Index 51.9) on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026. The head-to-head page lines up their benchmarks, listed prices, context windows and provider counts side by side.

When was Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking released?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking first appeared in the catalogue on 23 Sept 2025, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2025-03-31. It is the current version in its family. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.