Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The model features 480 billion total parameters, with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts). Pricing for the Alibaba endpoints varies by context length. Once a request is greater than 128k input tokens, the higher pricing is used.

Avg Score

83.4%

22 answers

Avg Latency

13.6s

9 runs

Pricing

Free

input

Free

output

per 1M tokens

Context

262K

tokens

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Other Models from Qwen

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Model	Score	Latency	Cost/1M
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	88.6%	48.0s	$0.70
Qwen: Qwen3 Max	87.9%	31.7s	$3.60
Qwen: Qwen-Plus	85.8%	22.0s	$0.80
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	84.6%	248.4s	$0.35
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Plus	84.2%	20.5s	$3.00
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking	80.8%	28.8s	$0.68
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking	80.4%	112.0s	$1.98
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct	78.8%	26.3s	$1.00
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728	78.5%	19.6s	$0.80
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B	74.6%	78.3s	$0.40
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507	73.1%	30.8s	$0.20
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	71.4%	27.9s	$0.59
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking	70.8%	79.4s	$1.14
Qwen: Qwen-Turbo	70.7%	18.6s	$0.13
Qwen: Qwen Plus 0728	70.0%	49.2s	$2.20
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	69.6%	25.6s	$0.27
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash	69.2%	14.1s	$0.90
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507	65.8%	45.6s	$0.20
Qwen: Qwen-Max	65.8%	12.7s	$4.00
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct	65.0%	22.1s	$0.38
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct	63.6%	30.8s	$0.17
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking	63.1%	83.6s	$0.60
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct	62.9%	22.2s	$0.26
Qwen: Qwen3 8B	62.5%	111.5s	$0.15
Qwen: Qwen3 14B	61.5%	70.4s	$0.14
Qwen: Qwen VL Max	61.3%	36.4s	$2.00
Qwen: Qwen3 32B	59.6%	121.7s	$0.16
Qwen: QwQ 32B	59.2%	143.6s	$0.28
Qwen: Qwen VL Plus	57.9%	10.4s	$0.42
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B	57.7%	149.8s	$0.14
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct	57.5%	38.3s	$0.38
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct	54.6%	133.7s	$0.29
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	52.7%	19.7s	$0.07
Qwen: Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct	47.3%	39.1s	$0.14
Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct	31.3%	20.7s	Free
Qwen: Qwen2.5 7B Instruct	30.8%	12.6s	$0.07
Qwen: Qwen2.5-VL 7B Instruct	21.7%	10.9s	$0.20
Qwen: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	6.7%	6.4s	$0.06
Qwen: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct	—	—	Free
Qwen: Qwen3 4B (free)	—	—	Free

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Quickstart

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import { OpenRouter } from "@openrouter/sdk";

const openrouter = new OpenRouter({
  apiKey: "<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>"
});

const completion = await openrouter.chat.completions.create({
  model: "qwen/qwen3-coder:free",
  messages: [
    {
      role: "user",
      content: "Hello!"
    }
  ]
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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