How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct cost?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs $0.20/M input tokens and $0.88/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.11/M tokens.

What is the context length of Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 16,384 completion tokens.

Does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct support?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct accepts text and images as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is served by 3 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra, Venice, and Parasail. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

When was Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct released?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct was released on September 23, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is March 31, 2025.

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

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Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table extraction, multilingual OCR). 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.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.20 / $0.88per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Sep 23, 2025

Knowledge cutoff

Mar 2025

Providers

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Latency / throughput


$0.21	$1.90	$0.10	0.66s	52 tok/s	99.91%
$0.20	$0.88	$0.11	1.99s	11 tok/s	99.61%
$0.21	$1.90	$0.10	1.67s	12 tok/s	99.24%

Input $0.21Output $1.90
52 tok/s99.91% uptime
Input $0.20Output $0.88
11 tok/s99.61% uptime
Input $0.21Output $1.90
12 tok/s99.24% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.1545/M tokens

Output

$1.617/M tokens

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

$0.133	$1.898	69.7%	64.5%
$0.184	$1.898	23.4%	12.8%
$0.200	$0.876	0.0%	22.7%

Effective in $0.133Effective out $1.898
Token share
64.5%
Effective in $0.184Effective out $1.898
Token share
12.8%
Effective in $0.200Effective out $0.876
Token share
22.7%

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.96%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.96%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.93%

Without Routing

96.44%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct (Artificial Analysis)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct GPQA Diamond	71.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct HLE	6.6%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct IFBench	42.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct τ²-Bench Telecom	35.1%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct AA-LCR	32.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct LiveCodeBench	59.4%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Terminal-Bench Hard	6.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct MMLU-Pro	82.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct AIME 2025	70.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond	61.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) HLE	4.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) IFBench	36.6%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom	27.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) LiveCodeBench	34.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard	6.1%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) MMLU-Pro	76.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) AIME 2025	23.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) AIME	32.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3 235B A22B (Non-reasoning) MATH-500	90.2%

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