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Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

Alibaba

Released
September 22, 2025
Data date
September 8, 2026
Benchmark-Meta-Score
Fewer than eight test series
Speed
55.8 tokens/s
Output throughput
Price
Historical rates under Costs
Input
Text, Image, Video
Output
Text

Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Thinking is the large reasoning checkpoint in the Qwen3-VL family. It combines text, image, and video understanding with a trained thinking mode. Its Mixture-of-Experts architecture contains 235 billion parameters but activates 22 billion per token. The technical report gives it a 256K context for interleaved text, image, and video inputs.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is a separate checkpoint for direct answers without this Thinking variant’s reasoning trace.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
LocalSource
Parameters
235BSource
Active parameters
Context window
262,144 tokensSource
Weights repository
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingSource
License
Apache-2.0Source
Architecture
vision encoder + MLP vision-language merger + Qwen3 language model; dense or MoESource
Input
Text, Image, VideoSource
Output
TextSource
Reasoning mode
thinkingSource
Tool calling
Structured output
Native context window
262,144 tokensSource
Maximum context window
262,144 tokensSource
Parameters
235 BSource
Active parameters
22 BSource
Languages
39 languages testedSource
Repository created
2025-09-22 (Repository creation date is a precise publication proxy, but may differ from the public announcement date or an individual checkpoint's first availability.)Source