Qwen: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, Qwen — route, pricing & source
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...
OpenRoutermediumLast checked: Jun 2, 2026
Input
$0.2000 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$0.8800 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available
Context and limits
Context window
262.1K
Max output
16,384
Input modalities
text, image
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Open weights
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
VisionToolsJSONLong context
From source metadata + verification fields — confirm provider docs before production.
Benchmarks
- LMArena Text Arenaoverall · official_benchmark_api1,415Independent
Rank: 92 | Votes: 11515 | 95% CI: 1409.0-1421.9 | Published: 2026-05-27 | Model license label in dataset: Apache 2.0
- LMArena Vision Arenaoverall · official_benchmark_api1,215Independent
Rank: 45 | Votes: 12232 | 95% CI: 1207.4-1222.2 | Published: 2026-05-18 | Model license label in dataset: Apache 2.0
Access and license
Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Open sourceApache 2.0Code/weights ship under an open license (often MIT / Apache‑2.0). MIT is a short permissive license: use/modify/redistribute freely with a copyright notice—always read the upstream project text.
Example costs
Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request
10,000 requests
$4.64
100,000 requests
$46.40
1,000,000 requests
$464.00
Cheaper alternatives
Lower-cost models for the same scenario
Source
Source
OpenRouter Models API
Confidence
medium
Route
OpenRouter
Last checked
Jun 2, 2026
Source notes
- Includes Hugging Face benchmark data only when the dataset is public, ungated, allowlisted, and matched by reviewed aliases.
