Using Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct on Vercel AI Gateway

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct through model ID alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct. 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 Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.40/1M input, $1.60/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
alibaba/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

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-vl-235b-a22b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.40
Output tokens$1.60

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct is Alibaba's open-weight flagship multimodal MoE model combining strong text generation with visual understanding, supporting 256K context.

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Model Specs

Released2025-09-18
Parameters235B
Context256k
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

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Provider

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