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Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct

480B-parameter MoE coding model with 35B active, 256K context, and agentic performance rivaling Claude Sonnet on complex development tasks.

About model

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct excels at agentic coding tasks, achieving high performance on coding and browser-use challenges. It supports long-context capabilities and repository-scale understanding. Suitable for developers and power users.

  • Model card

    Architecture Overview:
    • Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 480B total parameters and 35B active parameters
    • Native 256K token context window, extendable to 1M tokens using Yarn interpolation
    • Advanced grouped query attention mechanism for memory efficiency

    Training Methodology:
    • Trained on 7.5 trillion high-quality tokens with 70% code ratio across 358 programming languages
    • Sophisticated post-training with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning workflows
    • Constitutional AI training for safety alignment and responsible code generation

    Performance Characteristics:
    • State-of-the-art SWE-bench Verified results at 69.6%, comparable to Claude Sonnet 4
    • Exceptional agentic coding capabilities with 37.5 score on complex autonomous workflows
    • Superior tool use and browser automation performance for development tasks

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  • Applications & use cases

    Agentic Development Workflows:
    • Autonomous software engineering tasks spanning multiple files and services
    • Legacy system modernization with comprehensive analysis and migration planning
    • End-to-end feature development across backend APIs, frontend components, & databases

    Advanced Code Generation:
    • Repository-scale refactoring and architectural improvements
    • Complex debugging and root cause analysis across distributed systems
    • Code completion and fill-in-the-middle for development environments

    Enterprise Integration:
    • Custom development workflows with fine-tuning capabilities
    • Production deployment automation and CI/CD pipeline generation
    • Code review assistance and security vulnerability identification

    Developer Tooling:
    • Integration with platforms like Qwen Code, CLINE, and VS Code extensions
    • Batch processing for large codebase analysis and transformation
    • Real-time coding assistance with context-aware suggestions

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  • Model provider
    Qwen
  • Type
    Code
    Chat
  • Main use cases
    Chat
    Coding Agents
    Function Calling
  • Features
    Function Calling
    JSON Mode
  • Deployment
    Dedicated
  • Parameters
    480B
  • Activated parameters
    35B
  • Context length
    256K
  • Input price

    $2.00 / 1M tokens

  • Output price

    $2.00 / 1M tokens

  • Input modalities
    Text
  • Output modalities
    Text
  • Released
    July 22, 2025
  • Last updated
    July 24, 2025
  • Quantization level
    FP8
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  • Category
    Chat