Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct

Qwen · released 2025-07-23 · apache-2.0 license

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is Alibaba's flagship open-weight agentic coding MoE (480B total, 35B active, July 2025, Apache-2.0). Independent leaderboards record SWE-bench Pro 38.7% (Scale AI) and Terminal-Bench 2.0 23.9% (tbench.ai).

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters480.15B total · MoE, — active
Architectureqwen3_moe
Context window1049K tokens
Knowledge cutoff2025-06-30
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond
SWE-bench Verified
AIME
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M280 GB278.5 GB1049K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Strongest open-weight agentic coding model at release (Qwen claims SWE-bench Verified SOTA among open models); Native 256K context extendable to 1M; Purpose-built agentic tool-calling

Weaknesses: Modest absolute scores on hardest independent suites (SWE-bench Pro 38.7); Very large (480B), costly to self-host