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Alibaba (Qwen), open weights

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 95th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 43.2. Its strongest category is multimodal, where it ranks 55th. API pricing starts at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens, with a 131K-token context window.

Last verified

Noometry rank
#95 of 354
Index score
43.2
Evidence
Confirmed 18 results
Provider
Alibaba (Qwen)
Released
April 1, 2025
Weights
Open weights
Reasoning
Yes
Context window
131K
Max output
33K
Input price
$0.70 / M
Output price
$2.80 / M
Blended price
$1.22 / M
Output speed
Not measured
Value
#127 of 219
Knowledge cutoff
April 2025
Input
text, image
Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct

Category scores

Each category score combines every public result we have in that category.

  1. Coding 42.4
  2. Reasoning 29.3
  3. Math 39.0
  4. Knowledge 40.3
  5. Multimodal 39.8
  6. Multilingual 51.9
  7. Instruction Following 74.2
  8. Long Context 43.4
  9. Writing & Preference 60.2
CategoryScoreRankResults
Coding42.4#1001
Reasoning29.3#921
Math39.0#1181
Knowledge40.3#1211
Multimodal39.8#551
Multilingual51.9#971
Instruction Following74.2#1011
Long Context43.4#981
Writing & Preference60.2#993

Strengths and weaknesses

Categories where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B places highest and lowest among the models ranked in each, with its score against that category's median.

Strongest categories

CategoryScorevs medianRank
Reasoning29.3+5.7#92 of 350, top 27%
Coding42.4+3.7#100 of 340, top 30%
Writing & Preference60.2+6.5#99 of 312, top 32%

Weakest categories

CategoryScorevs medianRank
Multimodal39.8+1.2#55 of 128, top 43%
Knowledge40.3+3.0#121 of 314, top 39%
Math39.0+2.4#118 of 327, top 37%

Closest competitors

The models ranked just above and below Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B. When scores are this close, price and speed are often the better way to choose.

ModelRankScoreBlended $/MSpeed
Qwen3 235B-A22B#9143.5$1.2285Compare
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT#9243.5$0.11—Compare
MiMo-V2.5#9343.4$0.18—Compare
Kimi K2.7 Code#9443.3$1.71—Compare
Seed 2.0 Pro#9643.2$1.13—Compare
DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus#9743.1$0.4530Compare
Hunyuan Vision 1.5#9843.1——Compare
Mistral Large 4#9943.1$1.03—Compare

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Benchmark results

Every published result we track, with its source. Bold rows are the ones used for ranking; where several exist we prefer independent runs over self-reported numbers.

Coding

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Coding1439#99 of 294, top 34%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Coding1425thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Reasoning

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Hard Prompts1428#91 of 297, top 31%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Hard Prompts1407thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Math

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Math1426#94 of 285, top 33%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Math1412thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Knowledge

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Expert1442#80 of 273, top 30%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Expert1430thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Multimodal

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Vision1247#58 of 122, top 48%LMArena2026-10-09
LMArena Vision1207thinkingLMArena2026-10-09

Multilingual

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Non-English1405#96 of 297, top 33%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Non-English1377thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Chinese1463#86 of 285, top 31%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Chinese1441thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena French1452#67 of 223, top 31%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena German1424#73 of 231, top 32%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena German1415thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Japanese1385#73 of 211, top 35%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Korean1394#62 of 213, top 30%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Korean1358thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Russian1408#97 of 283, top 35%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Russian1369thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Spanish1428#86 of 226, top 39%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Spanish1403thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Instruction Following

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Instruction Following1406#93 of 298, top 32%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Instruction Following1374thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Long Context

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Longer Query1420#92 of 291, top 32%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Longer Query1390thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

Writing & Preference

BenchmarkScorePositionSettingSourceDate
LMArena Text1420#91 of 297, top 31%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Text1400thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Creative Writing1366#114 of 295, top 39%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Creative Writing1344thinkingLMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Multi-Turn1428#85 of 295, top 29%LMArena2026-10-08
LMArena Multi-Turn1387thinkingLMArena2026-10-08

API pricing by provider

RouteInput $/MOutput $/MCached input $/MChecked
alibaba$0.70$2.80—2026-10-10
bedrock$0.53$2.66—2026-10-10
deepinfra$0.20$0.88$0.112026-10-10
openrouter$0.21$1.90$0.102026-10-10

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Frequently asked questions

How good is Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B by Alibaba (Qwen) ranks 95th of 354 ranked models on the Noometry Index as of October 2026, with a score of 43.2. Its strongest category is multimodal, where it ranks 55th. API pricing starts at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens, with a 131K-token context window.

How much does Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B cost?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B costs $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens on Alibaba (Qwen)'s own API.

What is Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's context window?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B accepts up to 131K tokens of input and can write up to 33K tokens in one response.

Is Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B open source?

Yes. Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's weights are downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct); check the license for commercial terms.

What are Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B's strengths and weaknesses?

Relative to other ranked models, Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B places best in reasoning, coding, writing & preference and lowest in multimodal, knowledge, math.

What is Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B best at?

Its best category is multimodal, where it ranks 55th on Noometry.