Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
QWEN Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$1.22Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Coding & Logic
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The model features 480 billion total parameters, with 35 billion active per forward pass (8 out of 160 experts).
Pricing for the Alibaba endpoints varies by context length. Once a request is greater than 128k input tokens, the higher pricing is used.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.22 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$1.00 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
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