Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen vision-language instruct model for visual reasoning, documents, and agent tasks

Strongest at
Reading & documents
Better than 38% of the past year's models · one benchmark so far
Price per 1M tokens
$0.21 / $1.9
input / output · OpenRouter
Context window
131.1K
tokens in · 32.8K out

Capability profile

Where it lands among 91 models released in the past year. 50 is the average model.

This modelEvery model from the past year
Coding
No results yet
Writing
No results yet
Reading & documents
49Better than 38% · 1 test
Reasoning
No results yet
Math
No results yet
Science
No results yet
Visual reasoning
38Better than 18% · 1 test
Computer use
No results yet
Where these scores come from

Each capability combines the published benchmarks listed here, rescaled so 50 is the reference average and 15 points is one standard deviation. A hollow marker rests on a single benchmark.

Price against capability

The shaded corner holds anything better and cheaper. Prices blend input and output 3 to 1.

5 models from the past year score higher on Reading & documents for less: Qwen3.5 9B, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and 2 more.

$0.1$0.3$1$3$10204060GPT-6.1 Terra: 64, $2 per 1MMuse Spark Open: 61, $2 per 1MClaude Haiku 5.5: 39, $0.2 per 1MMistral Large 4: 29, $2.06 per 1MGemini 4 Argon: 71, $4 per 1MGPT-6.1 Sol: 73, $4 per 1MClaude Sonnet 5.5: 67, $4 per 1MGPT-6 Sol: 62, $4 per 1MGPT-6 Luna: 50, $0.2 per 1MClaude Opus 5.5: 68, $8 per 1MGrok 4.7: 56, $3 per 1MDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 60, $0.21 per 1MGPT-6 Astra: 72, $20 per 1MMuse Spark 1.3: 63, $2 per 1MGemini 3.8 Flash: 55, $1.5 per 1MClaude Fable 5.1: 71, $20 per 1MQwen3.8 Flash: 46, $0.23 per 1MGLM-5.3-Flash: 50, $0.24 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 33, $0.32 per 1MQwen3.8 27B: 45, $1.12 per 1MGLM-5.3: 47, $2.15 per 1MGemini 3.7 Flash: 60, $1.5 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 63, $0.99 per 1MGrok 4.6: 53, $3 per 1MMuse Glimmer 30B: 47, $0.52 per 1MMuse Spark 1.2: 54, $2 per 1MQwen3.8 Max: 59, $3 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 59, $0.15 per 1MClaude Opus 5: 63, $10 per 1MGemini 3.6 Flash: 50, $1.5 per 1MGemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 34, $0.85 per 1MKimi K3: 58, $6 per 1MQwen3.7 Flash: 22, $0.055 per 1MGPT-5.6 Terra: 50, $4.5 per 1MGPT-5.6 Sol: 65, $8 per 1MGPT-5.6 Luna: 44, $0.45 per 1MGrok 4.5: 49, $3 per 1MClaude Sonnet 5: 51, $4 per 1MGLM-5.2: 47, $2.15 per 1MKimi K2.7 Code: 34, $1.71 per 1MClaude Fable 5: 73, $20 per 1MQwen3.7 Plus: 38, $0.7 per 1MClaude Opus 4.8: 55, $10 per 1MQwen3.7 Max: 49, $3.75 per 1MGemini 3.5 Flash: 56, $3.38 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Pro: 51, $1.19 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash: 31, $0.11 per 1MGPT-5.5: 64, $11.2 per 1MQwen3.6 27B: 30, $1.35 per 1MKimi K2.6: 36, $1.71 per 1MGrok 4.3: 25, $1.56 per 1MGrok Build 0.1: 38, $1.25 per 1MClaude Opus 4.7: 56, $10 per 1MMuse Spark 1.1: 50, $2 per 1MQwen3.6 Plus: 40, $1.12 per 1MGLM-5V-Turbo: 39, $1.9 per 1MGPT-5.4 nano: 36, $0.46 per 1MGPT-5.4 mini: 40, $1.69 per 1MGPT-5.4: 63, $5.62 per 1MQwen3.5 9B: 64, $0.19 per 1MQwen3.5 27B: 26, $0.82 per 1MGemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 69, $4.5 per 1MClaude Sonnet 4.6: 52, $6 per 1MClaude Opus 4.6: 51, $10 per 1MGemini 3 Flash Preview: 65, $1.12 per 1MGPT-5.2 Codex: 50, $4.81 per 1MMistral Large 3: 20, $0.75 per 1MQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 49, $0.63 per 1MQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructPrice per 1M tokens →↑ Reading & documents$0.1$1$10204060GPT-6.1 Terra: 64, $2 per 1MMuse Spark Open: 61, $2 per 1MClaude Haiku 5.5: 39, $0.2 per 1MMistral Large 4: 29, $2.06 per 1MGemini 4 Argon: 71, $4 per 1MGPT-6.1 Sol: 73, $4 per 1MClaude Sonnet 5.5: 67, $4 per 1MGPT-6 Sol: 62, $4 per 1MGPT-6 Luna: 50, $0.2 per 1MClaude Opus 5.5: 68, $8 per 1MGrok 4.7: 56, $3 per 1MDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 60, $0.21 per 1MGPT-6 Astra: 72, $20 per 1MMuse Spark 1.3: 63, $2 per 1MGemini 3.8 Flash: 55, $1.5 per 1MClaude Fable 5.1: 71, $20 per 1MQwen3.8 Flash: 46, $0.23 per 1MGLM-5.3-Flash: 50, $0.24 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: 33, $0.32 per 1MQwen3.8 27B: 45, $1.12 per 1MGLM-5.3: 47, $2.15 per 1MGemini 3.7 Flash: 60, $1.5 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: 63, $0.99 per 1MGrok 4.6: 53, $3 per 1MMuse Glimmer 30B: 47, $0.52 per 1MMuse Spark 1.2: 54, $2 per 1MQwen3.8 Max: 59, $3 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: 59, $0.15 per 1MClaude Opus 5: 63, $10 per 1MGemini 3.6 Flash: 50, $1.5 per 1MGemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 34, $0.85 per 1MKimi K3: 58, $6 per 1MQwen3.7 Flash: 22, $0.055 per 1MGPT-5.6 Terra: 50, $4.5 per 1MGPT-5.6 Sol: 65, $8 per 1MGPT-5.6 Luna: 44, $0.45 per 1MGrok 4.5: 49, $3 per 1MClaude Sonnet 5: 51, $4 per 1MGLM-5.2: 47, $2.15 per 1MKimi K2.7 Code: 34, $1.71 per 1MClaude Fable 5: 73, $20 per 1MQwen3.7 Plus: 38, $0.7 per 1MClaude Opus 4.8: 55, $10 per 1MQwen3.7 Max: 49, $3.75 per 1MGemini 3.5 Flash: 56, $3.38 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Pro: 51, $1.19 per 1MDeepSeek V4 Flash: 31, $0.11 per 1MGPT-5.5: 64, $11.2 per 1MQwen3.6 27B: 30, $1.35 per 1MKimi K2.6: 36, $1.71 per 1MGrok 4.3: 25, $1.56 per 1MGrok Build 0.1: 38, $1.25 per 1MClaude Opus 4.7: 56, $10 per 1MMuse Spark 1.1: 50, $2 per 1MQwen3.6 Plus: 40, $1.12 per 1MGLM-5V-Turbo: 39, $1.9 per 1MGPT-5.4 nano: 36, $0.46 per 1MGPT-5.4 mini: 40, $1.69 per 1MGPT-5.4: 63, $5.62 per 1MQwen3.5 9B: 64, $0.19 per 1MQwen3.5 27B: 26, $0.82 per 1MGemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 69, $4.5 per 1MClaude Sonnet 4.6: 52, $6 per 1MClaude Opus 4.6: 51, $10 per 1MGemini 3 Flash Preview: 65, $1.12 per 1MGPT-5.2 Codex: 50, $4.81 per 1MMistral Large 3: 20, $0.75 per 1MQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: 49, $0.63 per 1MQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructPrice per 1M tokens →↑ Reading & documents

OpenRouter $0.21 / $1.9 · Cached input $0.1

The Qwen3 VL line

2 releases in the Qwen3 VL line.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructSep 23, 202511dQwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructOct 4, 2025

A newer release is out: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct.

Qwen's past year

48 release days in the past year, about one every 8 days. The next is expected around Nov 2, 2026. Forecasts ↗

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Specifications

RELEASE DATESep 23, 2025
WEIGHTSOpen weights
CONTEXT WINDOW131.1K
MAX OUTPUT32.8K
REASONINGNot listed
TOOL CALLINGNot listed
INPUTStext, image/bmp, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, image/heic
OUTPUTStext

Models.dev record ↗

Specifications and prices from Models.dev; availability and limits may differ by provider. Benchmarks from Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), LiveBench and the other sources named above.