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Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-thinking-2507 · #180 cheapest of 325 paid models

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:33 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is a high-performance, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model optimized for complex reasoning tasks. It activates 22B of its 235B parameters per forward pass and natively supports up to 262,144...

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Pricing

Input

$0.30

per 1M tokens

Output

$3.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$0.975

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (no cache-read rate published — hits billed as normal input).

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$0.975$0.0336
50%$0.975$0.0336−0%
90%$0.975$0.0336−0%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates (available for OpenAI / Anthropic / Google — not flagged for this creator). Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.00105$1.05
Document summary8,0001,000$0.0054$5.40
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.015$15.00
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.06$60.00

Performance

Intelligence Index

19.6

AA composite quality

Coding Index

22.1

Math Index

Agentic Index

3.8

Output speed

median

Time to first token

median

Time to first answer

after reasoning tokens

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,080
UI components985
Data viz984
3D1,058
Game dev1,016
Code categories1,066

Specs

Context window

262K

tokens

Max output

33K

tokens

Input modalities

text

Tokenizer

Qwen3