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Qwen 3 235B

Alibaba (via hosted providers)

open_source_balanced

Capabilities

ToolsCodeExtended ThinkingStructured OutputMultilingual

Strengths

  • Hybrid thinking (toggle reasoning on/off)
  • Excellent multilingual
  • MoE (22B active)
  • Strong benchmark scores
  • #1 open model on text (lmarena.ai)
  • Apache 2.0

Weaknesses

  • No vision (use Qwen3-VL variant for vision)
  • Self-hosting needs significant GPU

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.4

Output / 1M tokens

$1.2

Context window

128k

Transparency

Open weights

10.0 / 10

Open training data

3.0 / 10

Open methodology

7.0 / 10

Licence openness

10.0 / 10

Provider disclosure

2.0 / 10

FMTI company score

300.0 / 10

Composite:6.4 / 10

Apache 2.0, open weights. Alibaba FMTI 30.

Sustainability

Inference energy

5.0 / 10

Training footprint

N/A

Provider infrastructure

N/A

Composite:5.0 / 10

MoE efficient. Depends on hosting.

Task Fitness

Code
73%
Vision
0%
Analyse
73%
Extract
70%
Generate
68%
Summarise
70%
Translate
76%
Conversation
68%