Qwen3 235B
Open SourceAlibaba Cloud · 2025
Alibaba's latest MoE model with 235B parameters and strong multilingual capabilities.
Quick Facts
Parameters
235B (MoE)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text
Open Source
Yes
License
Qwen License (open-weight)
Pricing
Free / API from $0.50/1M tokens
Released
2025
Developer
Alibaba Cloud
About
Qwen3 235B is Alibaba Cloud's latest large language model in the Qwen (通义千问) family, featuring 235 billion parameters with Mixture-of-Experts architecture for efficient inference. It demonstrates exceptional performance in both Chinese and English, with strong capabilities in reasoning, coding, creative writing, and knowledge-intensive tasks. Qwen3 235B is particularly strong in multilingual contexts, supporting over 100 languages with native-level Chinese understanding. Available through Alibaba Cloud's API, Tongyi Qianwen web interface, and as open-weight models for self-deployment.
Strengths
- +Strong multilingual performance, especially Chinese-centric
- +Open-weight availability for self-hosting
- +Excellent reasoning and coding benchmarks
- +Efficient MoE architecture for inference
Weaknesses
- −Text-only without built-in vision
- −Smaller global community than Llama
- −Limited third-party tooling and integrations
Best For
Chinese-language AI applications and content generation
Multilingual translation and cross-lingual tasks
Self-hosted AI for Asian market applications
Cost-effective alternative to GPT-4o for text tasks
Pricing
Free (Web)
$0
- Limited Qwen3 chat
- Basic features
- File uploads
API
From $0.50/1M tokens
- Pay-as-you-go
- 128K context
- Function calling
Self-Hosted
Free (open-weight)
- Model weights
- Custom deployment
- Commercial use
Technical Specs
Parameters
235B (MoE)
Context Window
128K tokens
Modalities
text
Languages
Open Source
Yes
License
Qwen License (open-weight)
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