Model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B

OPEN

Alibaba · Qwen3-Coder family · released Jul 22, 2025

Most powerful open agentic coding MoE; 256K native (1M extrapolated) context, rivals Claude Sonnet 4.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

1326.5

Elo · rank #165

Parameters

480B

Active params

35B (MoE)

Context

256K tokens

Architecture

MoE, 160 experts / 8 active

License

Apache 2.0

Languages

119+

API price (in/out)

$1.5 / $7.5

Modalities

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Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

Aider PolyglotCoding61.8%#17

best: Claude Opus 4.5 · 89.4%

BFCL v3Agents68.7%#12

best: Hunyuan-A13B · 78.3%

GPQA DiamondReasoning62.0%#166

best: GPT-6 Astra · 96.0%

Humanity's Last ExamReasoning4.0%#141

best: Claude Opus 5 · 64.7%

LiveCodeBenchCoding44.9%#127

best: DeepSeek-V4-Pro (Think Max) · 93.5%

SWE-bench ProCoding38.7%#54

best: Claude Fable 5.1 · 81.2%

SWE-bench VerifiedCoding66.5%#70

best: Claude Opus 5 · 96.0%

tau-benchAgents60.0%#15

best: Claude Opus 4.1 · 82.4%

Terminal-Bench 2.0Coding23.9%#71

best: Gemini 3.8 Flash · 89.4%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

289 GB

VRAM @ FP16

960 GB

Fits on (Q4)

M3 Ultra 512GB

Far too large for a single RTX 4090; needs multi-GPU or large CPU-RAM offload setups.

Quantizations

GGUF · FP8 · AWQ

Fine-tune it

Permissive

QLoRA326.4 GB2× B200 192GB

LoRA1022.4 GB8× H200 141GB

Full fine-tune7704.0 GBbeyond 8× B200

QLoRA SFT on ~10k samples ≈ $12.52 (2× B200 192GB)

Plan a fine-tune →

Qwen3-Coder family

Elo progression across releases

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35BJul 20251326.5

Resources

HFQwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct GHQwenLM/Qwen3-Coder DOCSqwen.readthedocs.io APIAvailable via Alibaba API

API price $1.5/$7.5 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)