Qwen3 235B A22b No Thinking
Key facts · verified Oct 29, 2026
Qwen3 235B A22b No Thinking is an Alibaba model. It was retired on 10 October 2026. Its last listed API price was $0.46 per million input tokens and $1.82 per million output tokens (third-party listing; not on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio's pricing page). Its context window is 131.1K tokens. It ranks #162 on LMArena's text leaderboard (Elo 1402, read 1 Nov 2026). Source: alibabacloud.com.
Qwen3 235B A22B (non-thinking mode) is a mixture-of-experts model, listed here in its non-thinking mode, from Alibaba's Qwen team, published with open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence, so it can be self-hosted, with a 131.1K-token context window. The qwen3-235b-a22b model was available via the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API until 10 October 2026, the shutdown date in Alibaba's deprecation table; the weights remain on Hugging Face. Third-party providers listed it at $0.46 per million input tokens and $1.82 per million output tokens; Model Studio's pricing page did not list this model ID. 1402 Elo (rank 162, thinking effort)
$0.46 / $1.82 per million tokens
131.1K tokens
Full Specifications
$0.46 / $1.82 per million tokens | |
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| Identity | |
| Developer | Alibaba |
| Retired | 10 October 2026 |
| Status | Retired. Alibaba's Model Studio deprecation table lists qwen3-235b-a22b for shutdown on 10 October 2026; the open weights remain on Hugging Face. |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Cost | |
| Blended $/1M tokensinput × 0.75 + output × 0.25 | $0.800 / 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.460 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $1.820 / 1M tokens |
| Capacity | |
| Context window | 131.1K tokens |
| Measured quality | |
| LMArena Elo | 1402 (checked Nov 2026) |
| LMArena rank | Rank 162 |
| Elo per dollarLMArena Elo ÷ blended $/1M tokens | 1753 |