Qwen3-Coder Models by Alibaba
Last refreshed 2026-06-19. Next refresh: weekly.
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Capabilities
About
Qwen3-Coder is Alibaba’s Qwen Team agentic coding model family for repository-scale software engineering and tool-using coding agents. The first highlighted open release is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct, a large MoE coder with a long native context aimed at multi-turn coding, browser-use, and tool-use agent loops. The Qwen team also ships Qwen Code, a command-line coding agent adapted for these models, and documents use with community IDEs and scaffolds such as Claude Code and Cline via Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
Decision facts
- Best fit
- reasoningJSON / Tool usestructured outputs
- Capability starting point
- Qwen3-Coder-Next with 256k context and reasoning, JSON / Tool use, and structured outputs
- Lowest tracked input
- Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct · $0.070/1M · Novita AI
- Closest related family
- Ovis Image
Current Variants
Use-when guidance is based on each model's tracked capabilities, context window, release date, and replacement status.
Use when the workload needs code, 256k context, and reasoning.
Use when the workload needs code, 262k context, and JSON / Tool use.
Use when the workload needs code, 1m context, and JSON / Tool use.
Use when the workload needs code, 1m context, and JSON / Tool use.
Use when the workload needs code, 262k context, and JSON / Tool use.
| Model | Use when | Released | Signals | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | Use when the workload needs code, 256k context, and reasoning. | 2026-02 | code256k contextreasoning | Current |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | Use when the workload needs code, 262k context, and JSON / Tool use. | 2025-12 | code262k contextJSON / Tool use | Current |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | Use when the workload needs code, 1m context, and JSON / Tool use. | 2025-09 | code1m contextJSON / Tool use | Current |
| Qwen3-Coder-Flash | Use when the workload needs code, 1m context, and JSON / Tool use. | 2025-07 | code1m contextJSON / Tool use | Current |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | Use when the workload needs code, 262k context, and JSON / Tool use. | 2025-07 | code262k contextJSON / Tool use | Current |
Release Timeline
4 release groupsSpecifications(5 models)
| Model | Released | Context | Parameters | Reasoning | JSON / Tool use | Structured Outputs | Code Exec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | 2026-02 | 256k | 80B total, 3B active | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | 2025-12 | 262k | 30.5B total, 3.3B active | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | 2025-09 | 1m | — | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Qwen3-Coder-Flash | 2025-07 | 1m | — | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | 2025-07 | 262k | 480B total, 35B active | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Available From(8 providers)
Pricing
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | Novita AI | $0.07 | $0.27 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | OpenRouter | $0.07 | $0.28 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | OpenRouter | $0.12 | $0.8 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | AWS Bedrock | $0.15 | $0.62 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct | Vercel AI Gateway | $0.15 | $0.6 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Flash | OpenRouter | $0.195 | $0.975 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | Novita AI | $0.2 | $1.5 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | GCP Vertex AI | $0.22 | $1.8 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Flash | Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | $0.3 | $1.5 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | OpenRouter | $0.3 | $1 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | Novita AI | $0.38 | $1.55 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | AWS Bedrock | $0.5 | $1.2 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | Vercel AI Gateway | $0.5 | $1.2 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | OpenRouter | $0.65 | $3.25 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS | $1 | $5 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-Plus | Vercel AI Gateway | $1 | $5 | Serverless |
| Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct | Vercel AI Gateway | $1.5 | $7.5 | Serverless |
Related Model Families
Models(5)
Qwen3-Coder-Next
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Qwen3-Coder-Plus
Qwen3-Coder-Flash
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct