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Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B

qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

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Qwen3-235B-A22B is a 235B parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model developed by Qwen, activating 22B parameters per forward pass. It supports seamless switching between a "thinking" mode for complex reasoning, math, and...

specs & pricing
Type
text
Provider
qwen
Model ID
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b
Capabilities
tools, reasoning
Context window
131K tokens
Self-hostable
Yes — runs on your own GPU
Input price
$0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price
$2.00 / 1M tokens

Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.

What it costs to run

cloud · 1M in + 1M out

$2.50

$0.50 for a million input tokens plus $2.00 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.

your hardware

$0 / token

Served from a workstation or on-prem server you own, there is no per-token fee — the marginal cost is power.

Run it on your own hardware

Estimated GPU memory for Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B (235B parameters), including the KV cache for a 8,192-token context.

Q4_K_M
~135.8 GBmulti-GPU or large unified memory
Q8_0
~234.3 GBmulti-GPU or large unified memory
FP16 / BF16
~440.1 GBmulti-GPU or large unified memory

Install the agent on the machine and it dials out to the gateway over a single WebSocket — no port forwarding or inbound firewall rules. Requests for this model go to your node first and fail over to the cloud only when it can't serve.

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Call Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Serve it from hardware you own, with cloud failover when your nodes are busy or offline.

no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B?
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context per request.
How much does Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B cost per million tokens?
Through Wide Area Intelligence, Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $2.00 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $2.50.
Can I run Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B on my own hardware?
Yes — Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B is an open-weight model you can run on a workstation or on-prem server you own. At Q4_K_M it needs roughly 135.8 GB of GPU memory with an 8,192-token context — more than a single 80 GB card, so plan for multiple GPUs or a large unified-memory machine. Wide Area Intelligence routes requests to your own nodes first and fails over to the cloud only when they can't serve.

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