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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Pricing

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Input / 1M tokens

$0.210

Output / 1M tokens

$1.90

Context window

262,144 tokens

≈ 350 pages of text

Max output

32,768 tokens

What it costs in practice

Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.001

1,000 requests / month$1.01/mo 10,000 requests / month$10.12/mo 100,000 requests / month$101.20/mo

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

Price history

List price per 1M tokens since we started tracking in Jun 2026. Each step marks a price change — hover a point for the exact date and rate.

What it excels at

Strong performance on multimodal instruction following and document or image reasoning tasks. Supports extended context for long-form visual and textual inputs.

The business tradeoff

Open-weights release means inference latency and reliability vary by deployment. Output token pricing is substantially higher than input, increasing cost for generation-heavy workloads.

Cheaper from Qwen

Qwen3.6 35B A3BQwen$0.0006/ typical request Qwen3.7 PlusQwen$0.0009/ typical request Qwen3.7 FlashQwen$0.0001/ typical request

Same tier from other providers

Claude Fable 5Anthropic$0.032/ typical request Grok 4.3xAI$0.0025/ typical request DeepSeek R1DeepSeek$0.0015/ typical request

Head-to-head

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Claude Fable 5 →Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Grok 4.3 →Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs DeepSeek R1 →

Vendor list rates, as of Jul 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.