Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Thinking is a multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Thinking model is optimized for multimodal reasoning in STEM and math. The series emphasizes robust perception (recognition of diverse real-world and synthetic categories), spatial understanding (2D/3D grounding), and long-form visual comprehension, with competitive results on public multimodal benchmarks for both perception and reasoning.
Beyond analysis, Qwen3-VL supports agentic interaction and tool use: it can follow complex instructions over multi-image, multi-turn dialogues; align text to video timelines for precise temporal queries; and operate GUI elements for automation tasks. The models also enable visual coding workflows, turning sketches or mockups into code and assisting with UI debugging, while maintaining strong text-only performance comparable to the flagship Qwen3 language models. This makes Qwen3-VL suitable for production scenarios spanning document AI, multilingual OCR, software/UI assistance, spatial/embodied tasks, and research on vision-language agents.
- Organization
- Alibaba
- Family
- qwen
- Providers
- 9
- Context
- 131,072
- Output limit
- 32,768
- Knowledge
- 2025-03-31
- Release
- 2025-09-23
- Updated
- 2025-09-23
- Weights
- Open
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Capabilities
- Tools, Reasoning, Structured, Temperature
Providers
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| Provider | Model ID | Context | Output | Input / output · 1M | Reasoning | Tools | Structured | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eden AI | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.40 / $4.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Hugging Face | Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.98 / $3.95 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Jalapeno Cloud | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.98 / $3.95 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Kilo Gateway | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.40 / $4.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| LLM Gateway | novita/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.98 / $3.95 | Yes | No | No | View |
| Merge Gateway | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.287 / $2.867 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| NanoGPT | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.50 / $6.00 | Yes | No | No | View |
| Alibabavia OpenRouter | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking unknown | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.40 / $4.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
| Novitavia OpenRouter | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking bf16 | 131,072 | 32,768 | $0.98 / $3.95 | Yes | Yes | No | View |
| OrcaRouter | qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking | 131,072 | 40,960 | $0.40 / $4.00 | Yes | Yes | Yes | View |
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Pricing
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Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinkingObserved - Input
- $0.40
- Output
- $4.00
Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates
| Endpoint | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba | $0.40 | $4.00 | — | — |
| Novitanovita/bf16 | $0.98 | $3.95 | — | — |
Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.
Performance
Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.
Time to first token · milliseconds
All latency percentiles 2 endpoints
| Endpoint | P50 | P75 | P90 | P99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba | 467 ms | 528 ms | 734 ms | 28,332.82 ms |
| Novitanovita/bf16 | 911 ms | 950 ms | 1,107.6 ms | 1,268.4 ms |
Output throughput · tokens per second
All throughput percentiles 2 endpoints
| Endpoint | P50 | P75 | P90 | P99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibabaalibaba | 58 t/s | 59 t/s | 60 t/s | 61.66 t/s |
| Novitanovita/bf16 | 46 t/s | 49 t/s | 50.4 t/s | 52.68 t/s |
Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.
Uptime
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Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.
Technical details & API
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qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinkingObserved - Context
- 131,072
- Maximum output
- 32,768
- Tokenizer
- Qwen3
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- text
- Moderation
- No
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-03-31
- Retirement
- 2026-10-09
- Added to OpenRouter
- 2025-09-23
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinkingqwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinkingQwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-ThinkingReasoning
- Required
- Yes
- Enabled by default
- Not reported
- Default effort
- —
- Supported efforts
- —
Supported parameters
frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogprobsmax_tokenspresence_penaltyreasoningrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Default parameters
- top k
- 20
- top p
- 0.95
- temperature
- 0.8
- repetition penalty
- 1
Frequently asked questions
Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.
How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking cost?
Listed rates start at $0.287 per million input tokens and $2.867 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.
Which providers offer Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
There are 10 cataloged offers across 9 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.
What is the context window?
The cataloged model context is 131,072 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.
Does it support tools and structured output?
Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Yes. Support can vary by endpoint.
Resources
Catalog history · 2 recorded revisions
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