Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B

The largest open agentic code model in the Qwen3-Coder family, a 480B MoE with 35B active across 160 experts, built for repository-scale coding workflows.

Params: 480B, 35B active
Context: 262K tokens
Max output: 66K
License: Apache 2.0

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Hosted API price

List price via Alibaba Cloud · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $1.50 /1M
Output: $7.50 /1M
Cheapest: $0.38 / $1.55 via Novita
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Novita Cheapest	$0.38	$1.55	$6.90	Visit website
Alibaba Cloud Creator	$1.50	$7.50	$30.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B needs about 274 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× RTX A6000 at about $3,283 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 1B tokens a month on Alibaba Cloud's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 262K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	274 GB333 GB	8× RTX A6000	$3,283$3,283	1B tokens /mo1B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	490 GB549 GB	8× A100	$9,850$9,850	4B tokens /mo4B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	970 GB1,029 GB	4× B300	$22,723$22,723	9B tokens /mo9B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

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The models nearest Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$0.5233	$0.45	$0.89	1M		−9%
GPT-5 Mini OpenAI	$0.5417	$0.25	$2.00	400K	May 2024	−6%
DeepSeek V3 Turbo DeepSeek	$0.55	$0.40	$1.30	64K		−4%
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Thinking Alibaba Cloud	$0.5667	$0.20	$2.40	262K		−1%
Qwen3-235B-A22B Thinking (2507) Alibaba Cloud	$0.575	$0.23	$2.30	262K		0%
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B This model Alibaba Cloud	$0.575	$0.38	$1.55	262K
GPT-4.1 Mini OpenAI	$0.60	$0.40	$1.60	1M	Jun 2024	+4%
Gemini 2.5 Flash Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Jan 2025	+16%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google Cloud	$0.6667	$0.30	$2.50	1M	Mar 2026	+16%
GPT-3.5 Turbo OpenAI	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	16K	Sep 2021	+16%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.6667	$0.50	$1.50	256K		+16%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B accepts and can do, as published by Alibaba Cloud.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B good for?

Repository-scale agentic coding, browser use and tool calling, at the heavy end of the open Qwen3-Coder checkpoints. Apache 2.0 weights, on a multi-GPU node.

When is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B not a good fit?

Self-hosting on ordinary hardware: memory follows the full 480B parameters, not the 35B active. It is non-thinking only, takes no image or video input, and has no built-in web search, though a host or your own tool loop can add one.

What is the cheapest way to run Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Alibaba Cloud charges $1.50 in / $7.50 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 8x RTX A6000 at $3,283 a month, which costs the same as about 1B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B?

Yes. The weights are Apache 2.0 licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 274 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $3,283 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.