Qwen Released July 22, 2025 Synced Apr 7, 2026

Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...

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Why it stands out

262K-token context window handles longer documents and multi-turn conversations without truncation.

Tool use support makes it viable for function-calling and agentic pipelines.

$0.22/M input makes it practical for always-on agents, batch processing, or high-volume classification.

What to watch

Text-only input — image or audio workflows require a separate model in the pipeline.

No benchmark score currently tracked — evaluate using task-specific testing alongside pricing and capability data.

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July 22, 2025

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The model features 480 billion total parameters, with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts). Pricing for the Alibaba endpoints varies by context length. Once a request is greater than 128k input tokens, the higher pricing is used.

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