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Qwen3-235B-A22B

Qwen3-235B-A22B is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Jul 21, 2025. It ranks #166 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1393. It costs $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.55 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.

LMArena text1393+27 in 30 days
Rank#166/351
95% interval1389–1398
Votes37.5K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Jul 21, 2025
Context window
256K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.09 / $0.55
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
No
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
139.4K
Hugging Face likes
813
Qwen3-235B-A22B, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestQwen3-235B-A22B 1393

The rating LMArena published at each update since May 5, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
LiveCodeBenchCoding70.62%87 / 143$0.22 / $0.88
MedQAMedicine90.62%44 / 92$0.22 / $0.88
GPQA DiamondReasoning70.20%95 / 138$0.22 / $0.88
MMLU-ProReasoning81.25%84 / 138$0.22 / $0.88
AIMEReasoning83.96%40 / 96$0.22 / $0.88

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1393166 / 35137.5K
CodingLMArena1398178 / 3466.9K
MathLMArena1397167 / 3392.4K
Creative writingLMArena1356161 / 3494.6K
Instruction followingLMArena1362179 / 3519.2K
Hard promptsLMArena1393173 / 35116.4K
Multi-turnLMArena1398155 / 3496.5K
Long queriesLMArena1389168 / 3307.2K
ExpertLMArena1369183 / 3051.9K
Legal and governmentIndustries1394165 / 3252.5K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1408152 / 3252.3K
Business and financeIndustries1392154 / 3446.3K
ChineseLanguages1424162 / 3282.6K
SpanishLanguages1403144 / 249763
GermanLanguages1387135 / 261762
FrenchLanguages1368179 / 252530
JapaneseLanguages1372111 / 236887

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown (Qwen3-235B-A22B (Non-Thinking), Qwen3-235B-A22B).

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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3-235B-A22B?

Qwen3-235B-A22B is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3-235B-A22B cost?

$0.09 per million input tokens and $0.55 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3-235B-A22B’s context window?

256K tokens (262,144).

How does Qwen3-235B-A22B rank?

#166 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1393 (95% interval 1389–1398) from 37,485 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3-235B-A22B open source?

Qwen3-235B-A22B has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507).

Sources

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