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Qwen3 235B

Open source
Self-hostable
Free to run
Alibaba (Qwen)
Open license
text
Qwen 3Released 2y ago
Analyzer Index v1.0
44.1
/ 100 · 6 of 13 benchmarks
Context
131k
Output limit
16k
Input price
$0.09 /M
Output price
$0.55 /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.

math

AIME 2024High risk
%

American Invitational Mathematics Examination 2024 problems. Three-digit integer answers; very hard for non-reasoning models.

coding

HumanEvalSaturated
% pass@1

164 hand-written Python programming problems scored by passing unit tests. Saturated for frontier models.

LiveCodeBenchFresh
% pass@1

Continuously refreshed coding benchmark drawing from LeetCode, AtCoder, and Codeforces; reduces benchmark contamination.

Aider PolyglotFresh
%

Real-world refactoring and bug-fix tasks across multiple programming languages, scored by whether the model produces a passing patch in Aider's edit format. Tests practical coding ability beyond single-file generation; harder than HumanEval and not yet saturated.

long context

RULER 128kFresh
%

Long-context retrieval and reasoning suite. We report the 128k token effective-context score.

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.

reasoning

ARC-AGI 2Fresh
%

Second-generation ARC challenge testing fluid reasoning over abstract visual puzzles. Resists training-data memorisation by construction: each puzzle is novel and solutions require multi-step pattern induction. Frontier models are only just starting to score above chance on the harder tier.

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

API Success RateN/A
%

Share of nightly probe requests over the last 14 days that streamed a complete answer without an error, timeout or empty response. Needs at least five attempts before a figure is shown.

Reliability monitor

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Hosted endpoints

HostInput $/MOutput $/MContextSpeedTTFTUptime 24hQuant
Host 44$0.09$0.35262k——0.0%fp8
Host 37$0.09$0.55262k16 tok/s0.33 s99.8%fp8
Host 52$0.15$0.75128k——99.0%fp8
Host 29$0.14$0.80131k——100.0%fp8
Host 53$0.22$0.88262k——0.0%unknown
Host 53$0.25$1.00262k——0.0%unknown
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 235B44.1this page$0.211×
Qwen3 235B (Thinking)think51.6+7.6$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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