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Released September 23, 2025Cutoff March 2025

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B

Alibaba Qwen3 VL 235B A22B is a MoE vision-language model with DeepStack fusion, Interleaved-MRoPE, 3D grounding, and a GUI-operating Visual Agent mode.

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Model Overview

Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B - Alibaba's MoE Vision-Language Model

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B is Qwen's mixture-of-experts vision-language model, released in Instruct and Thinking editions. It combines a redesigned vision-language architecture with agentic features built for operating software interfaces and turning visual input directly into working code.

TraitDocumented Behavior
DeepStackFuses multi-level Vision Transformer features to sharpen fine-grained image-text alignment.
Interleaved-MRoPEAllocates positional embedding frequency across time, width, and height for long-horizon video reasoning.
Text-Timestamp AlignmentGrounds video events to precise timestamps, moving beyond the earlier T-RoPE method.
Visual AgentOperates PC and mobile GUIs by recognizing on-screen elements, understanding their function, and invoking tools to finish tasks.
Visual Coding BoostConverts images or video directly into Draw.io diagrams, HTML, CSS, or JS code.

Spatial and Recognition Range

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B extends 2D grounding into 3D grounding, letting it judge object position, viewpoint, and occlusion for embodied AI tasks. Its OCR pipeline covers 32 languages and is documented as robust to low light, blur, and tilt, with improved handling of rare and ancient characters.

Benchmark Performance

Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis

13.4%
Intelligence

Accuracy & Capability Details

GPQA - Graduate Science77.2%
Humanity's Last Exam11.9%
SciCode - Scientific Coding39.9%
Instruction Following56.5%
Long Context Reasoning63.7%
τ²-Bench - Agentic Tasks54.1%
TerminalBench - System Control11.4%

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Model Details
General Info
ProviderAlibabaAnthropicAnthropic
Release DateSeptember 23, 2025September 22, 2026September 28, 2026
Knowledge CutoffMar 2025-Jun 2026
Context & Limits
Context Window262K
1M
Best Context Window
1M
Best Context Window
Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Input Pricing
$0.21
Best Input Pricing
$4$2
Output Pricing
$1.39
Best Output Pricing
$20$10
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Benchmarks (0-100)
Intelligence Index9.9
57.6
Best Intelligence Index
56.0
Coding Index---
Agentic Index---
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Humanity's Last Exam

Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.

7%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 7%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
61%
Claude Opus 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 61%
Claude Opus 5.5
55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Humanity's Last Exam
Score: 55%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Long Context Reasoning

Logical reasoning over long context windows.

33%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 33%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
85%
Claude Opus 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 85%
Claude Opus 5.5
83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Long Context Reasoning
Score: 83%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

SciCode Benchmark

Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.

36%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 36%
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
67%
Claude Opus 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 67%
Claude Opus 5.5
61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5
SciCode Benchmark
Score: 61%
Claude Sonnet 5.5

Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.

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