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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 modelQwen 3.8 27B DarkIdolQwenRemove
ProviderQwenQwen
Discovery tierOpen weightsOpen weights
AddedApr 29, 2025Oct 5, 2026
Limits
Context window262.14K262.14K
Max output16.38K32.77KBest
Average output616 tokens554 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.0875Best$0.10
Output$0.35Best$0.60
Cache read$0.0175Best$0.05
Performance
Throughput—34.3 tok/s
Time to first token—4.4 s
Request success (24h)91.4%Best90.2%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index8.3—
Math Index23.7—
Capabilities
ReasoningNoYes
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
  • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol

Intelligence Index

  • Qwen 3 235b A22B8.3
  • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol—

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: 23.7
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 4.2%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 61.3%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 76.2%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 36.6%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 34.3%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 23.7%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • AIME

    Competition mathematics

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 32.7%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • MATH-500

    Competition math problems

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 90.2%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 6.1%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 27.2%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Qwen 3 235b A22B: 0.0%
    • Qwen 3.8 27B DarkIdol: —

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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