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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Routed across multiple providers, which may include Alibaba, a Chinese entity; provider-specific privacy and logging guarantees may vary. Qwen3 Vision‑Language model (235B MoE, ≈22B active) tuned for instruction following and grounded visual QA. Excels at image understanding, dense OCR, charts/diagrams, and multi‑image context.
- Vision
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.30
- Output
- $1.90
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
Side by side
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwenThis model | GLM 4.6VZ.aiRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Z.ai |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Dec 11, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07KBest | 128K |
| Max output | 32.77KBest | 24K |
| Average output | — | 139 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.30 | $0.30 |
| Output | $1.90 | $0.90Best |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.7% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 8.4 |
| Math Index | — | 26.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
- GLM 4.6V
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct—
- GLM 4.6V8.4
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 26.3
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 17.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 3.7%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 56.6%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 75.2%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 27.9%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 41.1%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 26.3%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 3.0%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 30.7%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: —
- GLM 4.6V: 17.0%
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%
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- 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-vl-235b-a22b-instruct",
"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-vl-235b-a22b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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