Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is a large coding-focused model with tool use and function calling at a very competitive price, but without benchmark data for this variant businesses should treat it as unproven — the Qwen family's strong track record suggests potential, but independent evaluation is needed.
Assessment date: March 12, 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 |
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.22 | $0.000220 |
| Output | $1.00 | $0.001000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
