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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (Jul 2025)

ECI#85
144
Alibaba
Jul. 25, 2025
Open weights

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking (Jul 2025) is an open-weights model from Alibaba, released July 25, 2025. It has an ECI score of 144 and ranks 85th of 249 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 7th of 151 tracked models. At $0.23/Mtok for input tokens and $2.30/Mtok for output tokens, it is more expensive per token than similarly-capable models.

Input price$0.23 / 1M tokens
Output price$2.30 / 1M tokens
Parameters2.4e11
Training compute4.8e24 FLOP

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