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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Active Parameters

480B

Context Length

262K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Mixture of Experts (MoE)

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

22 Jul 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Dec 2024

API Pricing (per 1M)

Input: $1.50 · Output: $7.50

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

1009.77 GB VRAM

Consumer

58x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

15x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

12x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

262,144 tokens

1079.40 GB VRAM

Consumer

63x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

17x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

13x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: AbsoluteHidden: 6.1k · Context: 262K · Vocab: 151.9kx 62 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionMulti-Head Attention96Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 128+RMSNormPre-FFNSparse MoE FFN (8/160 experts)SwiGLUIntermediate: 2.6k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#124

BenchmarkScoreRank

Software Engineering

SWE-bench Verified

0.70

16

Web Development

WebDev Arena

1274

90

General Text

Text Arena

1387

104

Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis

0.12

203

Rankings

Overall Rank

#124

Coding Rank

#86

About Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is Alibaba's specialized agentic coding MoE model activating 35B parameters for repository-wide software development. Trained on 7.5T tokens with Agent RL, it natively powers terminal agents and automated PR generation over a 1M context.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Multi-Head Attention

Attention Heads

96

Key-Value Heads

8

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

Absolute Position Embedding

RoPE Theta

10,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

6,144

Number of Layers

62

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

2,560

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

151,936

Mixture of Experts

Total Expert Parameters

35.0B

Number of Experts

160

Active Experts

8

Shared Experts

-

FFN Intermediate Size (per Expert)

2,560

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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