Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
QWEN Developer Architecture Profile
Intelligence (ELO)1120Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context262,144Tokens
API Cost / 1M$1.08Blended Prompt + Completion
Model Capabilities
- Classification
- Vision
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 extraction, multilingual OCR). The series emphasizes robust perception (recognition of diverse real-world and synthetic categories), spatial understanding (2D/3D grounding), and long-form visual comprehension, with competitive results on public multimodal benchmarks for both perception and reasoning.
Beyond analysis, Qwen3-VL supports agentic interaction and tool use: it can follow complex instructions over multi-image, multi-turn dialogues; align text to video timelines for precise temporal queries; and operate GUI elements for automation tasks. The models also enable visual coding workflows—turning sketches or mockups into code and assisting with UI debugging—while maintaining strong text-only performance comparable to the flagship Qwen3 language models. This makes Qwen3-VL suitable for production scenarios spanning document AI, multilingual OCR, software/UI assistance, spatial/embodied tasks, and research on vision-language agents.
Granular Pricing Matrix
Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.20 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$0.88 / 1M
Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 3/16/2026
Evaluate Competitors
VS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Z.ai: GLM 5 TurboVS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Inception: Mercury 2VS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27BVS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10BVS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs AionLabs: Aion-2.0VS Engine MatchupQwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15