Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
· verified October 13, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index12 (official, read October 13, 2026)
Released2025-07-21
Context window262K
ModalitiesText
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.09 / $0.55 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.09/$0.55 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed July 21, 2025
In one line
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 by Alibaba, measured by Artificial Analysis at 12 on the Intelligence Index. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 13, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “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.”
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