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Why use Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.50/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct across 7 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install openaiexport AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],alibaba/qwen3-coderRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-coder",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "alibaba/qwen3-coder", not the LLMReference slug "qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | — | — |
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.22 | $1.80 |
| NVIDIA NIM | — | — |
| AWS Bedrock | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1.50 | $7.50 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.50 |
| Output tokens | $7.50 |
Capabilities
About Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is Alibaba's flagship open-source code generation and agentic model, released July 22, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. The model has 480 billion total parameters with 35 billion active parameters per token, organized across 62 transformer layers with 160 specialized expert networks and 8 experts activated per token. It uses Grouped Query Attention (GQA) with 96 query heads and 8 key-value heads and supports a native context window of 262,144 tokens, extendable to 1 million tokens via YaRN position scaling.