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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B
Best open-weights Qwen for agentic coding — great value.
Field notes
- Context window
- 1.0Mtokens
- Max output
- 66Ktokens
- Input price
- $0.22/ 1M tokens
- Output price
- $1.80/ 1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.15/ 1M tokens
- Modalities
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Released
- Jul 2025
- Parameters
- 480B
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Approx. speed
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Overview
What this model is
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is Alibaba's flagship open-weights coding model, a 480B-parameter MoE with 35B active params and native long context (extendable toward 1M). It is the strongest Qwen for coding and agentic tool use, roughly comparable to Claude Sonnet 4 among open models, and ships under Apache-2.0. Long multi-file agent runs still need more supervision and can drift compared with the Claude/GPT frontier.
Strengths
- Top-tier open-weights coding ability
- Apache-2.0 license, self-hostable
- Strong agentic tool-use for an open model
- Native long context for whole-repo work
Trade-offs
- Drifts on long multi-file agent sessions
- Below frontier reliability without supervision
- Text-only, no vision
- Heavy to self-host (480B MoE)
Best for
- Self-hosted coding assistants
- Agentic code generation on a budget
- Repo-scale code understanding and refactoring
- Tool-use and browser automation
Not ideal for
- Unsupervised long-horizon refactors
- Vision or multimodal tasks
Capabilities
Capability profile
Normalized 0–100 scores, comparable across the whole catalog.
- Reasoning
- 72
- Coding
- 78
- Math
- 74
- Writing
- 70
- Knowledge
- 76
- Speed
- 62
- Agentic
- 72
- Vision
- 5
- Multilingual
- 80
- Long Context
- 82
Benchmarks
How it scores
Public benchmark results, with independent third-party results where available. Bars normalize percentages to 100 and Elo ratings to a 1500 ceiling.
BenchmarkResult
SWE-bench Verifiedindependent
CodingSWE-bench
67%
SWE-bench Proindependent
CodingSWE-bench Pro
38.7%
Aider Polyglotindependent
CodingAider
61.8%