Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) is a large coding-oriented model with tool use support and no cost, which is appealing for experimentation. However, without any benchmark data its actual performance cannot be verified, capping its score in the conservative range.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The model features 480 billion total parameters, with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts). Pricing for the Alibaba endpoints varies by context length. Once a request is greater than 128k input tokens, the higher pricing is used.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
