Qwen3 235B A22B pricing and routing profile
Qwen3 235B A22B from Qwen (Alibaba) lists at $0.455 per million input tokens and $1.82 per million output tokens, with a 131,072-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
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Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.291 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.64 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $4.55 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Qwen3 235B A22B. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Qwen3 235B A22B that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.44 / $1.32 | 14% |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 | $0.30 / $1.80 | 19% |
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro | $0.435 / $0.87 | 26% |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | $0.32 / $1.28 | 30% |
| Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15 | $0.26 / $1.56 | 30% |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 / $1.20 | 34% |
Questions
How much does Qwen3 235B A22B cost?
Qwen3 235B A22B lists at $0.455 per million input tokens and $1.82 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.64 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Qwen3 235B A22B?
131,072 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Qwen3 235B A22B?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Qwen3 235B A22B on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.