Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
by Alibaba (Qwen) · qwen/qwen3-coder · #118 cheapest of 325 paid models
Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC · refreshed hourly
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...
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Pricing
Input
$0.30
per 1M tokens
Output
$1.00
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.475
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.10
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
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per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.475 | $0.0316 | — |
| 50% | $0.40 | $0.0216 | −32% |
| 90% | $0.34 | $0.0136 | −57% |
*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
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.00045 | $0.45 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.0034 | $3.40 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.011 | $11.00 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.05 | $50.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
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AA composite quality
Coding Index
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Math Index
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Agentic Index
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Output speed
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median
Time to first token
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median
Time to first answer
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after reasoning tokens
Design Arena Elo
| Category | Elo |
|---|---|
| Website | 1,186 |
| UI components | 1,157 |
| Data viz | 1,119 |
| Game dev | 1,160 |
| Code categories | 1,176 |
Specs
Context window
262K
tokens
Max output
66K
tokens
Input modalities
text
Tokenizer
Qwen3