Qwen3-CoderOpen Weight
Released
Qwen3-Coder is an AI model released by Qwen on Tuesday, Jul 22 2025, 84 days after Qwen3. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run. It is a 480B parameter model with a 256k token context window. Benchmark results (shown below) cover BullshitBench v2.
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API pricing
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $1.00
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $5.00
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $1.80
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $9.00
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $3.00
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $15.00
- InputWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it.
- $6.00
- OutputWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one.
- $60.00
Available from
| Novita | — | $0.38 | $1.55 | 256K | fp8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| us-south1 | $0.22 | $1.80 | 256K | — |
Benchmarks
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Qwen3-Coder, released July 22, 2025, was Alibaba's largest open-weight model to that point: a 480B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 35B active, built specifically for agentic coding rather than code completion. It shipped with a 256K-token native context window, extensible to roughly 1M through positional extrapolation, so a whole repository could sit inside a single prompt.
It arrived alongside Qwen Code, a command-line agent forked from Google's Gemini CLI, which signalled what the model was for — long multi-step tool-using sessions rather than single-shot completions. Released the same month as Kimi K2 and GLM-4.5, it formed part of a mid-2025 cluster of Chinese open-weight agentic models that reset what freely downloadable weights were expected to do, and a smaller Qwen3-Coder-Flash followed for latency-sensitive work.
Frequently asked questions
Qwen3-Coder was released by Qwen on Tuesday, Jul 22 2025.