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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

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 Thinking 1400.5 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking · 95% interval 1393.7–1407.3 · 7,862 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 Thinking

1,441.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.64 – 1,468.98

443 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,425.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.73 – 1,439.26

1638 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,343.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,325.43 – 1,361.74

1021 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,419.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.06 – 1,429.74

3495 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,378.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.22 – 1,388.39

5534 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,428.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.08 – 1,457.82

412 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,417.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,373.83 – 1,460.37

179 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,406.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.77 – 1,416.05

4047 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,417.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.55 – 1,430.58

1833 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,391.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,376.57 – 1,405.47

1572 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,369.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,354.32 – 1,384.69

1446 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,407.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,382.14 – 1,432.64

494 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,412.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.73 – 1,429.07

1241 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,433.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,405.16 – 1,462.19

389 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,414.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.97 – 1,442.75

439 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,425.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.30 – 1,436.15

2787 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,364.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,350.23 – 1,378.18

1755 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,374.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.05 – 1,386.58

2158 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,357.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,319.45 – 1,396.30

239 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,390.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,377.20 – 1,404.35

1767 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,409.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.24 – 1,437.84

424 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,387.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,370.79 – 1,404.02

1256 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,376.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,367.81 – 1,385.39

4367 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,400.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.67 – 1,407.31

7862 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,365.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,338.01 – 1,393.06

399 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,369.62 rating

Confidence interval: 1,347.21 – 1,392.04

618 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,401.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,370.85 – 1,432.88

380 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,441.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,413.96 – 1,469.19

444 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,425.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.09 – 1,439.60

1640 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,343.88 rating

Confidence interval: 1,325.71 – 1,362.05

1018 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,420.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,410.22 – 1,429.91

3494 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,379.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.59 – 1,388.76

5532 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,428.98 rating

Confidence interval: 1,400.10 – 1,457.85

412 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,417.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,373.81 – 1,460.35

179 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,407.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.10 – 1,416.40

4043 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,417.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.65 – 1,430.69

1832 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,391.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,377.08 – 1,405.98

1573 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,369.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,354.54 – 1,384.91

1444 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,407.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,381.92 – 1,432.43

494 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,412.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,395.76 – 1,429.13

1240 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,434.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.33 – 1,463.38

388 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,414.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,387.05 – 1,442.84

439 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,425.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,414.54 – 1,436.38

2789 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,364.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,350.61 – 1,378.55

1754 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,375.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.75 – 1,387.28

2156 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,358.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,319.59 – 1,396.42

239 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,390.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,377.12 – 1,404.25

1768 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,411.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,383.03 – 1,439.72

422 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,387.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.00 – 1,404.22

1257 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,376.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,368.16 – 1,385.75

4365 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,400.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.90 – 1,407.55

7859 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,365.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,338.05 – 1,393.10

399 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,370.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,347.90 – 1,392.63

620 votes

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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

1,402.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.51 – 1,433.64

379 votes

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

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking

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 Thinking

Capabilities

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Reasoning
Yes
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