Using Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 on GCP Vertex AI

Implementation guide · Qwen3 · Alibaba

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GCP Vertex AI exposes Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 through model ID qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at GCP Vertex AI and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the GCP Vertex AI SDK or REST API to call qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.22/1M input, $0.88/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install google-cloud-aiplatform
API key
GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT
Model ID
qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas

For Google-published models use the model name directly, e.g. "gemini-2.0-flash-001". For third-party publishers (Anthropic, Meta, etc.) use the full publisher path, e.g. "publishers/anthropic/models/claude-3-5-sonnet-v2@20241022".

import os
import vertexai
from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel

# Reads GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT from env; authenticates via Application Default Credentials
vertexai.init(project=os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"], location="us-central1")
model = GenerativeModel("qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-maas")
response = model.generate_content("Hello")
print(response.text)

Pricing on GCP Vertex AI

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.22
Output tokens$0.88

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

About Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is Alibaba Qwen's July 2025 non-thinking update of Qwen3-235B-A22B, a mixture-of-experts model with 22B active of 235B total parameters. Qwen dropped the hybrid thinking mode and trained separate Instruct and Thinking models; this is the Instruct release, with Apache-2.0 open weights on Hugging Face.

Model Specs

Released2025-07-21
Parameters235B-A22B
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

GCP Vertex AI

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Mountain View, California, United States