Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

qwen · Released Jul 21, 2025 Specialist
Intelligence #110 / 525
56.1 Our Score
Speed #167 / 244
66.5 tokens / sec
Input #157 / 525
$0.071 per 1M tokens
Output #123 / 525
$0.100 per 1M tokens
Context #80 / 525
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #110 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.071 input and $0.100 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 offers strong value at very low cost with a large 262K context window and solid instruction-following, though its overall reasoning and coding benchmarks place it in the mid-tier range. A good budget option for content and structured tasks, particularly for teams comfortable self-hosting or using Qwen's API.

Assessed April 23, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence5Technical4Value8.3Content5.5
Intelligence 5/10
Technical 4/10
Content 5.5/10
Value 8.3/10

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is a multilingual, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model based on the Qwen3-235B architecture, with 22B active parameters per forward pass. It is optimized for general-purpose text generation, including instruction following,..

235B Parameters

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

25 Intelligence Index
22.1 Coding Index
24.3 Agentic Index
71.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 75.3% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 10.6% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 82.8% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 98% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 71.7% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 71.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 36% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 52.4% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 15.2% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 33.3% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 46.1% Instruction following
LCR 31.2% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507
Providerqwen
Release Date July 21, 2025
Context Length262,144 tokens
Max Completion16,384 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.07 $0.000071
Output $0.10 $0.000100

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

97.3%
Avg Uptime
177ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
130 tok/s
Best Throughput
12/12
Active Endpoints
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