Qwen · Open weights
Qwen 3 Coder 480B
Qwen 3 Coder 480B, a 480 billion total parameter model with 35B active, and 160 total experts with 8 active. Performs similar to Claude 4 Sonnet in coding benchmarks, but does so at a much lower price.
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.13
- Output
- $0.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 315 tokens
- Longer than 33% of 468 models
Side by side
Qwen 3 Coder 480B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen 3 Coder 480BQwenThis model | Qwen 3.8 27B FimiQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Mar 17, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 315 tokens | 290 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.13 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $0.50Best | $0.60 |
| Cache read | — | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 109.8 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.1 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 95.1% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 11.9 | — |
| Math Index | 39.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi
Intelligence Index
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B11.9
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi—
Qwen 3 Coder 480B: Better than 26% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 39.3
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 45.7%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 4.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 61.8%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 78.8%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 40.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 58.5%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 39.3%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 47.7%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 94.2%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 18.9%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 43.6%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen 3 Coder 480B: 45.7%
- Qwen 3.8 27B Fimi: —
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.
- Throughput
- 109.8 tok/s
- Faster than 65% of 253 models
- Time to first token
- 2.1 s
- Quicker than 75% of 253 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 75.3%
- Request success (24h)
- 95.1%
- Reliable
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.
- 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.
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",
"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",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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