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Qwen3-235B-A22B

AlibabaReleased 28 Apr 2025Open weights
133116–149Index score#114 of 199 models
1/ 9Core tests taken1 of 6 areas · plus 7 anchor tests
−18Versus the frontier at releasebest then: o3
$0.46/ $1.82Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
131KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

801001201401601802002023202420252026GPT-4 at launch = 100Qwen3-235B-A22B

o1 reached this score 5 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)
71%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath (tiers 1-3)
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench 4.0
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Professional workno evidence yet
Finance Agent (v2)
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from Epoch AI, Vals AI, LiveBench, ARC Prize, Scale AI and other testers, at the model’s best standard setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above. Hover a bar for who ran it.

What others sayrank on 8 leaderboards

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 5 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released28 Apr 2025
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entry–
Scored asQwen3-235B-A22B
Output speed–

Alibaba releasesaround this one