Qwen · Efficient
Qwen3 Coder Flash
A speed‑optimized and budget‑friendly sibling to Coder Plus. Excellent at code generation and agentic workflows (tool use, environment interaction) with solid general‑purpose ability.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 65.5K
Side by side
Qwen3 Coder Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 Coder FlashQwenThis model | Llama 4 MaverickMetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 17, 2025 | Sep 5, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 65.54K | 65.54K |
| Average output | — | 114 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.30 | $0.19Best |
| Output | $1.50 | $0.65Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 15.4 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 1.0 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 99.6% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 9.6Best | 9.3 |
| Coding Index | — | 16.3 |
| Math Index | 29.0Best | 19.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Coder Flash
- Llama 4 Maverick
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Coder Flash9.6
- Llama 4 Maverick9.3
Qwen3 Coder Flash: Better than 19% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 16.3
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 29.0Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 19.3
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 0.2%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 0.0%
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 0.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 32.7%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 50.0%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 3.8%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 4.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 51.6%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 67.1%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 70.6%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 80.9%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 32.7%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 43.0%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.7%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 40.3%Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.7%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 29.0%Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 19.3%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 29.7%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0%Top
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 89.3%Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 88.9%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 15.2%Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 6.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 34.5%Top
- Llama 4 Maverick: 17.8%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Coder Flash: 32.7%
- Llama 4 Maverick: 50.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3-coder-flash",
"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-coder-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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