Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.21 / $1.9 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Sep 23, 2025

Why use Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Understands images
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input	$0.21 / 1M tokens
Output	$1.9 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.1 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

Cost calculator

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TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct	$0.0040	$3.97	$3.97

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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