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Qwen3-235B-A22B vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Qwen3-235B-A22B Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Input cost / 1M $0.70 $1.50
Output cost / 1M $2.80 $7.50
Context window 32,768 tokens 262,144 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

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Qwen3-235B-A22B

Input: 1M × $0.70 = $0.70
Output: 1M × $2.80 = $2.80
Total
$3.50

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Input: 1M × $1.50 = $1.50
Output: 1M × $7.50 = $7.50
Total
$9.00

Total cost savings

$5.50

Qwen3-235B-A22B saves $5.50 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Qwen3-235B-A22B handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$1.50 in · $7.50 out / 1M

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Economical model

Qwen3-235B-A22B

$0.70 in · $2.80 out / 1M

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All premium

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$450.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Qwen3-235B-A22B

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

$230.00

Routine slice
$140.00
Premium slice
$90.00

Monthly savings

$220.00

48.9% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b, qwen3-235b-a22b) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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