Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructQwen3-VL 235B A22B Instruct is the largest Mixture-of-Experts model in Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3-VL vision-language family, in its non-thinking Instruct edition, released in September 2025. Qwen positions it for visual agents that operate PC and mobile GUIs, generating HTML, CSS or diagrams from images and video, 2D and 3D grounding, long-video understanding and OCR in 32 languages. Choose it for direct answers; a separate Thinking edition targets multimodal STEM reasoning.
- Input price
- $0.40USD / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.60USD / 1M tokens
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 16.4K
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Specifications
Pricing
- Input
- $0.40 / 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.60 / 1M tokens
- Cache read
- $0.40 / 1M tokens
Context & modalities
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
Capabilities
- Chat
- Supported
- Vision
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Not supported
- Structured output
- Supported
- Function calling
- Supported
- Audio input
- Not supported
Access
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Model ID
- alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
- Execution
- sync
- Base URL
- https://api.sandbase.ai
- API
- Chat Completions API
- Endpoint
- /v1/chat/completions
Independent evaluations
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations, compared with other models on SandBase.
Metrics sourced from Artificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3
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OpenAI-compatible endpoint with unified authentication and usage tracking.
# The quoted heredoc keeps Unicode and shell metacharacters unchanged.
result=$(curl --fail-with-body --silent \
-X POST "https://api.sandbase.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SANDBASE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-binary @- <<'SANDBASE_JSON'
{
"model": "alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello"
}
],
"max_tokens": 2048
}
SANDBASE_JSON
)
printf '%s\n' "$result"Choose your model
Compare models
| Model | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructThis model Alibaba | 128K | $0.40 | $1.60 | Sep 23, 2025 |
Alibaba | 1M | $4.00 | $12.00 | Sep 23, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.15 | $0.47 | Sep 18, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Sep 3, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $0.50 | $3.00 | Aug 14, 2026 |
Alibaba | 1M | $2.00 | $6.00 | Aug 12, 2026 |
Questions
FAQ
How do I call Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct through SandBase?
Create a SandBase API key, then send requests with the model ID "alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct" to Chat Completions API (/v1/chat/completions) at https://api.sandbase.ai. The request examples on this page show the exact payload.
How much does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct cost?
$0.40 per 1M input tokens and $1.60 per 1M output tokens, billed per request from your SandBase balance. Discounts, when available, are shown in the pricing on this page.
What is the context window of Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?
131.1K tokens of context, with up to 16.4K output tokens per response.
How does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct score on benchmarks?
Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct scores 9.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v4.3), ranking #74 of 84 models on SandBase. Source: Artificial Analysis, measured as Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct.
Which features does Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct support?
Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct supports vision (image input), function calling, structured output. See Specifications above for the full list.
Do I need a separate Alibaba account?
No. One SandBase API key and balance gives you access to Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and the other models in the catalog; you do not need to sign up with Alibaba separately.