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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct benchmarks, ranks and price

Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.

Updated Oct 5, 2026Full leaderboardSources and method

Read Oct 5, 2026

#81of 126

on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 41 across 2 leaderboards.

Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.

By leaderboard

Where each leaderboard places Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Artificial Analysis

#90of 115

Score 9.9. Best run: qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct.

Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.

LiveBench

Not measured by LiveBench.

Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.

LMArena

#58of 115

Score 1415. Best run: qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct.

Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.

Berkeley BFCL

Not measured by Berkeley BFCL.

Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.

Price and context

$0.63

OpenRouter: $0.21 in, $1.90 out. Vercel AI Gateway: $0.40 in, $1.60 out Context window 262K tokens.

Nearby

The models either side of Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

  1. #78GLM 4.544
  2. #79GPT-5.4 Nano43
  3. #80Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking42
  4. #81Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct41
  5. #82GPT-4.1 Mini41
  6. #83Qwen3 235B A22B40
  7. #84GPT-5 Nano40

Questions about Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

How good is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct ranks #81 of 126 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 41 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct better than Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking?
Not on the consensus: Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking scores 42 to Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct's 41. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct better than GPT-4.1 Mini?
On the consensus, yes: 41 to 41.
How much does Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct cost?
$0.21 per million input tokens and $1.90 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.63 per million.

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