Qwen3 235B-A22B — Especificaciones
| Desarrollador | Alibaba |
|---|---|
| Tipo | LLM (MoE) |
| Modalidad | Texto → Texto |
| Parámetros | 235 mil millones totales / 22 mil millones activos (MoE) |
| Ventana de contexto | 128 K |
| Salida máxima | — |
| Licencia | Apache 2.0 (abierta) |
| Pesos abiertos | Sí |
| Lanzado | 2025 |
| Precio de entrada | 0,45 $/millón |
| Precio de salida | 1,80 $/millón |
| Proveedores de API | Alibaba, OpenRouter |
Ejecútelo localmente
| VRAM (4 bits) | ~140 GB |
|---|---|
| GPU mínima | Multi-GPU o Mac con 192 GB |
What is Qwen3 235B-A22B?
Qwen3 235B-A22B is the open flagship of Alibaba’s Qwen3 family — a 235B mixture-of-experts
activating 22B parameters per token, released under Apache 2.0 with a 128K context. Pricing
is $0.45 in / $1.80 out per million tokens; self-hosting needs around 140 GB at 4-bit, which
means a multi-GPU setup or a 192 GB Mac.
The Mac line is not a curiosity. Apple’s unified memory architecture lets a single
workstation address far more model memory than any consumer GPU, so a 192 GB Mac Studio can
hold a 235B model that would otherwise require a multi-GPU server — at a fraction of the
power draw, noise and facilities cost. For a small team that needs frontier-adjacent open
weights on-premises, that is often the only realistic path, and Qwen3 235B-A22B is one of the
strongest models that fits it. Apache 2.0 licensing makes it cleaner to adopt than the Llama 4
models, which carry EU restrictions. The 128K context is narrower than the 1M offered by
newer flagships, which is the main trade-off to weigh.
Qwen3 235B-A22B pricing: API cost per 1M tokens
| Entrada (por cada millón de tokens) | $0.450 |
|---|---|
| Salida (por cada millón de tokens) | $1.80 |
| Output/input ratio | 4× |
| Blended (4:1 in:out) | $0.720 per 1M tokens |
What Qwen3 235B-A22B costs per month
Real monthly spend at a 4:1 input-to-output mix — the ratio a typical chat or RAG workload actually produces.
| Carga de trabajo | Tokens/mes | Cost / month |
|---|---|---|
| Proyecto secundario | 1 millón de tokens de entrada / 0,25 millones de tokens de salida | $0.90 |
| Pequeño equipo | 20 millones de tokens de entrada / 5 millones de tokens de salida | $18 |
| Producción | 200 millones de tokens de entrada / 50 millones de tokens de salida | $180 |
Run your own numbers in the Calculadora de costos de API de IA.
Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3 235B-A22B
| Modelos | Dólares por millón combinados | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4-Pro abierta | $0.522 | 28% cheaper |
| DeepSeek V4-Flash abierta | $0.168 | 77% cheaper |
| Llama 4 Maverick abierta | $0.240 | un 67 % más barato |
Self-host or pay the API?
Qwen3 235B-A22B is open-weight, so you can run it yourself. It needs ~140 GB of VRAM at 4-bit (Multi-GPU or Mac 192GB). Self-hosting only beats the API once your volume is high enough to keep that hardware busy — the calculadora de autohospedaje frente a API works out the break-even point for your token volume.
Preguntas frecuentes
How much does Qwen3 235B-A22B cost per 1M tokens?
Qwen3 235B-A22B costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $1.80 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $0.720 per 1M tokens.
How much does Qwen3 235B-A22B cost per month?
A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $18 on Qwen3 235B-A22B. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $0.90.
What is a cheaper alternative to Qwen3 235B-A22B?
DeepSeek V4-Pro is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $0.522 per 1M blended — about 28% less than Qwen3 235B-A22B. It is also open-weight, so self-hosting is an option.
Can I run Qwen3 235B-A22B locally?
Yes. Qwen3 235B-A22B is open-weight and needs about ~140 GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantisation (Multi-GPU or Mac 192GB).
Why does Qwen3 235B-A22B charge more for output than input?
Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. Qwen3 235B-A22B charges 4× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.
Prices are the published list rates for the model's primary API and are reviewed as providers change them. Volume, batch and cached-input discounts are not included. Compare every model side by side in the Base de datos de modelos de IA o el Clasificación de modelos de lenguaje grande (LLM).
