Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct offers vision capability and a 262K context window at a reasonable price, but benchmark scores are limited across the board, placing it in the lower-mid tier. UK business accessibility may be a consideration given the provider's regional footprint.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table..
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Parameters | 235B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | September 23, 2025 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.20 | $0.000200 |
| Output | $0.88 | $0.000880 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
