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.

alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
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

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

10 offers · USD per million tokens
ProviderModel IDContextOutputInput / output · 1MReasoningToolsStructuredDetails
Eden AI
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07232,768$0.40 / $4.00YesYesYes
View
Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking
131,07232,768$0.98 / $3.95YesYesYes
View
Jalapeno Cloud
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking
131,07232,768$0.98 / $3.95YesYesYes
View
Kilo Gateway
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07232,768$0.40 / $4.00YesYesYes
View
LLM Gateway
novita/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07232,768$0.98 / $3.95YesNoNo
View
Merge Gateway
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07232,768$0.287 / $2.867YesYesYes
View
NanoGPT
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07232,768$0.50 / $6.00YesNoNo
View
Alibabavia OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
unknown
131,07232,768$0.40 / $4.00YesYesYes
View
Novitavia OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
bf16
131,07232,768$0.98 / $3.95YesYesNo
View
OrcaRouter
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
131,07240,960$0.40 / $4.00YesYesYes
View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens
Input from$0.287Per 1M input tokens
Output from$2.867Per 1M output tokens
Available offers10Across 9 providers

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.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 2 lowest-priced configurations
InputOutput
Alibabaalibaba
$0.40$4.00
Novitanovita/bf16
$0.98$3.95
qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinkingObserved
Input
$0.40
Output
$4.00
Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates
EndpointInput / 1MOutput / 1MCache read / 1MCache 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.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 2 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba
467–28,332.82 ms
Novitanovita/bf16
911–1,268.4 ms
All latency percentiles 2 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba467 ms528 ms734 ms28,332.82 ms
Novitanovita/bf16911 ms950 ms1,107.6 ms1,268.4 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 2 endpoints
P50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba
58–61.66 t/s
Novitanovita/bf16
46–52.68 t/s
All throughput percentiles 2 endpoints
EndpointP50P75P90P99
Alibabaalibaba58 t/s59 t/s60 t/s61.66 t/s
Novitanovita/bf1646 t/s49 t/s50.4 t/s52.68 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window
Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 2 endpoints
Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours
Alibabaalibaba
Novitanovita/bf16

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

Explore specifications, supported parameters, reasoning controls, and API identifiers for each OpenRouter route.

Current route specifications
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
Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Model IDqwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
Version IDqwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-thinking
Weights IDQwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking

Reasoning

Required
Yes
Enabled by default
Not reported
Default effort
—
Supported efforts
—

Supported parameters

  • frequency_penalty
  • include_reasoning
  • logprobs
  • max_tokens
  • presence_penalty
  • reasoning
  • repetition_penalty
  • response_format
  • seed
  • stop
  • structured_outputs
  • temperature
  • tool_choice
  • tools
  • top_k
  • top_logprobs
  • top_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

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

  • · 296a5fd0f4bd
  • · cfbe37f9c588