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Qwen3-235B-A22B

Active Parameters

235B

Context Length

131K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

29 Apr 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

-

API Pricing (per 1M)

Input: $0.23 · Output: $0.92

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

495.44 GB VRAM

Consumer

26x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

7x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

6x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

131,072 tokens

551.37 GB VRAM

Consumer

30x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

8x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

6x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 10.2k · Context: 131K · Vocab: 151.9kx 100 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention128Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 128+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (8/128 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 1.5k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#129

BenchmarkScoreRank

Professional Knowledge

MMLU Pro

0.682

45

Graduate-Level QA

GPQA

0.775

71

General Text

Text Arena

1423

87

Agentic Index

Artificial Analysis

0.01

117

0.22

135

Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis

0.12

180

General Knowledge

Reference
MMLU

0.878

7

Coding

Archived
Aider Coding

0.60

10

Rankings

Overall Rank

#129

Coding Rank

#121

About Qwen3-235B-A22B

Qwen3-235B-A22B is Alibaba Cloud's flagship open-source Mixture-of-Experts model activating 22B parameters for advanced computational linguistics and STEM problem solving. It combines dynamic thinking modes with sparse MoE efficiency across 119 languages.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

128

Key-Value Heads

8

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

1,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Auxiliary Parameters

-

Hidden Dimension Size

10,240

Number of Layers

100

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

1,536

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

151,936

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

22.0B

Number of Experts

128

Active Experts

8

Shared Experts

-

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

1,536

Dense Layers Before MoE

-

About Qwen 3

The Alibaba Qwen 3 model family comprises dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, with parameter counts from 0.6B to 235B. Key innovations include a hybrid reasoning system, offering 'thinking' and 'non-thinking' modes for adaptive processing, and support for extensive context windows, enhancing efficiency and scalability.


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