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Qwen3 235B (Thinking)

think
Open source
Self-hostable
Free to run
Alibaba (Qwen)
Open license
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Qwen 3Released 2y ago
Analyzer Index v1.0
51.6
/ 100 · 6 of 13 benchmarks
Context
131k
Output limit
16k
Input price
$0.45 /M
Output price
$3.50 /M
Parameters
235.1B · 22B active
Est. VRAM (Q4)
~141.1 GB

Public list price, verified 8h ago

Benchmarks

preference

Chatbot Arena EloFresh
Elo

Crowdsourced pairwise human preference rankings of LLM responses. Higher Elo means more frequently preferred by users.

performance

Output SpeedN/A
tok/s

Median output speed in tokens per second over the last 14 days on the model maker's own API, measured nightly with a fixed ~800-token prompt and ~250-token answer. Models not yet probed fall back to a dated manual figure. Higher is faster.

Time to First TokenN/A
ms

Median time from request to first streamed token in milliseconds over the last 14 days on the model maker's own API, using the same nightly probe prompt. Lower is snappier; reasoning models are penalised here because they think before talking.

general

Rolling Contamination-Controlled AverageFresh
/100

Contamination-controlled average across every task category in the latest rolling release (e.g. reasoning, coding, data analysis, research, browsing, long-horizon tasks). Questions are rotated with each release and graded against objective ground truth, removing the need for LLM-as-judge scoring. Only models with a score in every category get an average.

data analysis

Rolling Data AnalysisFresh
/100

Rolling contamination-controlled data-analysis evaluation. Table comprehension, CSV / spreadsheet reasoning, SQL-style joins, and chart interpretation. Refreshed every six months with new tables and questions to minimise contamination.

math

FrontierMath Tiers 1-3Fresh
%

Mathematical research problems spanning analysis, algebra, combinatorics and number theory. Tiers 1-3 are progressively harder; even frontier reasoning models only solve a small fraction. The hardest publicly reported benchmark for general mathematical reasoning.

OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Fresh
%

AIME-style competition problems written specifically for the OTIS mock contest, then run as an evaluation by Epoch AI. Closer in spirit to the public AIME but with novel problems unlikely to appear in training data.

knowledge

SimpleQA VerifiedFresh
%

A human-validated factuality benchmark of short factual questions whose answers can be checked against a single ground truth. Penalises hallucinations by scoring confidently-wrong answers below abstentions.

composite

Frontier CompositeFresh
ECI

Saturation-resistant composite capability score stitched together from ~40 underlying benchmarks using Item Response Theory. Each benchmark is weighted by its fitted difficulty and discriminative slope, so doing well on hard, contamination-resistant evals (FrontierMath, ARC-AGI 2, Humanity's Last Exam) moves the score and saturated benchmarks contribute almost nothing. Imported per-model from Epoch AI's published index; we anchor it to the same min-max scale we use for every other benchmark so it's directly weightable in scenarios.

Reliability monitor

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Hosted endpoints

HostInput $/MOutput $/MContextSpeedTTFTUptime 24hQuant
Host 52$0.45$3.50128k227 tok/s0.74 s100.0%fp8
Anonymised third-party hosts. Sorted by lowest output price. Speed and time to first token are medians from our nightly probe where measured; uptime is the catalog's 24-hour figure.

Effort variants

Same API model, different reasoning budget. Thinking / xHigh modes usually score better on reasoning benchmarks but emit many more output tokens per request. Higher effort is also an alternative to running a team of agents: check whether the extra points are worth the extra output.

VariantIndexvs this pageBlended $/MOutput tokens
Qwen3 235B44.1-7.6$0.211×
Qwen3 235B (Thinking)think51.6this page$1.214×

Output tokens are the typical multiple of a standard answer that the cost calculator assumes for each effort level; hidden reasoning bills as output.

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