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Qwen 3 235b A22B

Added Apr 29, 2025Open weights

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Qwen 3 235b is a 235b model with 22B active parameters. Supports switching between thinking and non thinking: trigger thinking with /think and /no_think anywhere in a prompt or system message to toggle chain-of-thought reasoning.

  • Tools
  • Structured output
  • PDF input
Input
Text
Output
Text
Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.0875
Output
$0.35
Cache read
$0.0175

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
262.1K
Max output
16.4K
Average output (7 days)
616 tokens
Longer than 57% of 468 models

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Qwen 3 235b A22BQwenThis modelGPT-4oOpenAIRemove
ProviderQwenOpenAI
Discovery tierOpen weightsFrontier
AddedApr 29, 2025May 13, 2025
Limits
Context window262.14KBest128K
Max output16.38K16.38K
Average output616 tokens101 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.0875Best$2.50
Output$0.35Best$10.00
Cache read$0.0175Best$1.25
Performance
Throughput—69.2 tok/s
Time to first token—1.4 s
Request success (24h)91.4%100.0%Best
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index8.38.4Best
Math Index23.7Best6.0
Capabilities
ToolsYesYes
VisionNoYes
Structured outputYesNo
PDF inputYesNo
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Qwen 3 235b A22B
  • GPT-4o

Intelligence Index

  • Qwen 3 235b A22B8.3
  • GPT-4o8.4

Qwen 3 235b A22B: Better than 13% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7Top
    • GPT-4o: 6.0

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
    • GPT-4o: 49.3%Top

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 4.2%Top
    • GPT-4o: 2.4%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 61.3%Top
    • GPT-4o: 54.3%

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 76.2%Top
    • GPT-4o: 74.8%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 36.6%Top
    • GPT-4o: 34.3%

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 34.3%Top
    • GPT-4o: 30.9%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7%Top
    • GPT-4o: 6.0%

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 32.7%Top
    • GPT-4o: 15.0%

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 90.2%Top
    • GPT-4o: 75.9%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 6.1%
    • GPT-4o: 8.3%Top

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 27.2%Top
    • GPT-4o: 25.1%

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
    • GPT-4o: 49.3%Top

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Prompt cache hits
0.0%
About $0.0875 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h)
91.5%
Unstable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 73.8%
  • Healthy (98% or more)
  • Degraded (90–98%)
  • Down (under 90%)
  • No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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