Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507

Qwen · released 2025-07-25 · apache-2.0 license

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is Alibaba's reasoning-mode 235B (22B active) open-weight MoE (July 2025, Apache-2.0), rated the leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis index (30): AIME25 92.3, GPQA 81.1, LiveCodeBench 74.1.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters235.09B total · MoE, — active
Architectureqwen3_moe
Context window262K tokens
Knowledge cutoff2025-06-30
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond81.1%
SWE-bench Verified
AIME92.3%
MMLU-Pro84.4%
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score7.16
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M137.9 GB136.4 GB262K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Leading open-weight reasoning model on the AA index (30) at release; Excellent competition math (AIME25 92.3); Strong coding and 256K long context (RULER 95.4)

Weaknesses: High token usage from long thinking traces; Trails top proprietary on HLE (18.2)