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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

AI model Released

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 1420.0 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct · 95% interval 1413.5–1426.5 · 11,314 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,461.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,438.70 – 1,485.00

714 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,438.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.30 – 1,451.16

2311 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,365.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,348.87 – 1,382.34

1357 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,429.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,420.05 – 1,438.52

4932 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,407.13 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.97 – 1,416.29

7988 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,442.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.00 – 1,466.09

596 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,450.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.73 – 1,490.52

261 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,424.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.71 – 1,459.69

279 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,428.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.60 – 1,436.75

5704 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,439.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.55 – 1,451.92

2499 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,432.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.16 – 1,446.59

2226 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,368.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,353.88 – 1,382.61

1889 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,438.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,416.10 – 1,461.00

736 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,444.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.48 – 1,459.87

1733 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.39 – 1,442.96

600 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,430.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.08 – 1,455.03

627 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,441.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.74 – 1,451.88

4003 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,392.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.53 – 1,405.32

2354 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,406.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,394.97 – 1,417.47

2946 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,385.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.09 – 1,430.02

170 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,394.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,360.87 – 1,427.44

325 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.81 – 1,432.38

2250 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,425.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.61 – 1,447.95

699 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,427.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.57 – 1,442.33

1929 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,404.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.20 – 1,412.77

6382 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,420.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.54 – 1,426.54

11314 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.87 – 1,445.83

540 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,407.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.35 – 1,427.68

882 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,428.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.04 – 1,456.24

460 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,462.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,439.44 – 1,485.77

714 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,438.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,425.58 – 1,451.43

2313 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,366.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,349.33 – 1,382.80

1356 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,429.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.83 – 1,438.30

4932 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,407.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.06 – 1,416.38

7991 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,442.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.03 – 1,466.13

596 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,451.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.84 – 1,491.59

262 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,424.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.68 – 1,459.65

279 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,428.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.71 – 1,436.86

5706 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,439.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,426.45 – 1,451.82

2499 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,432.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,419.26 – 1,446.69

2226 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,368.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,353.86 – 1,382.59

1889 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,438.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,415.89 – 1,460.80

736 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,444.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,429.32 – 1,459.68

1733 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.42 – 1,443.00

600 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,430.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.19 – 1,455.14

627 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,441.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,431.91 – 1,452.05

4005 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,392.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,379.80 – 1,405.59

2353 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,406.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.12 – 1,417.62

2946 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,384.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,339.83 – 1,429.77

170 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,394.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,360.92 – 1,427.50

325 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,407.12 – 1,432.68

2250 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,425.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.65 – 1,447.92

700 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,427.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.60 – 1,442.36

1929 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,404.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.54 – 1,413.09

6388 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,420.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.59 – 1,426.59

11320 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,419.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,392.91 – 1,445.87

540 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,407.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.49 – 1,427.76

883 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

1,428.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.93 – 1,456.15

460 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

439.0 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 235.67 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct / Pricing tiers 1
Provider / scopeRateCurrencyAmount / unit
DeepInfraQwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructStandard Cached inputUSD0.11 / 1M tokens
InputUSD0.2 / 1M tokens
OutputUSD0.88 / 1M tokens

Capabilities

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2025-03-31
Checkpoint tensor payload
438.97 GiB

Input modalities

  • text
  • image

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
qwen3_vl_moe