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Qwen 3 235B A22B

Alibaba

Released
April 27, 2025
Data date
September 8, 2026
Benchmark-Meta-Score
Unavailable
No independent results
Speed
60 tokens/s
Output throughput
Price
Historical rates under Costs
Input
Text
Output
Text

The original Qwen 3 235B A22B checkpoint combines 235 billion total parameters with 22 billion active parameters and a switchable Thinking mode. Unlike the later separate instruct and thinking variants, it keeps both response modes in one checkpoint.

The architecture uses 128 experts, eight active per token, and 94 layers with 64 Q heads and 4 KV heads. Qwen lists 32,768 native context tokens and up to 131,072 tokens with YaRN. Unlike the separate Qwen 3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 and Qwen 3 235B A22B Thinking 2507, this original checkpoint combines both response modes.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
LocalSource
Parameters
235BSource
Active parameters
Context window
32,768 tokensSource
Notes
The retained legacy slug refers to the original hybrid Qwen3-235B-A22B checkpoint. Its model card lists Pretraining and Post-training with switchable Thinking and non-Thinking modes. It is not a separately named Base checkpoint.Source
Weights repository
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22BSource
License
Apache-2.0Source
Architecture
Qwen3 causal language model; dense or sparse MoESource
Input
TextSource
Output
TextSource
Native context window
32,768 tokensSource
Maximum context window
131,072 tokensSource
Parameters
235 BSource
Active parameters
22 BSource
Languages
119 languages and dialectsSource
Repository created
2025-04-27 (Repository creation date is a precise publication proxy, but may differ from the public announcement date or an individual checkpoint's first availability.)Source
Training tokens
36 trillionSource