Alibaba: qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct API
The flagship Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) coding model released by Alibaba Cloud on July 22, 2025. As the most powerful variant in the Qwen3-Coder family, it boasts a staggering 480 billion (480B) total parameters while maintaining efficiency by activating only 35 billion (35B) parameters per token. Defined as the "Most Agentic Coding Model," it excels not only in code generation but also in autonomous debugging, repository-scale refactoring, and multi-step tool use. Through extensive Agentic Reinforcement Learning, its performance rivals or surpasses proprietary giants like Claude 4 and GPT-4o. It stands as the 2026 industry benchmark for handling complex, large-scale software engineering tasks in an open-source format.
- Context window: 262,144 tokens
- Max output: 65,536 tokens
- Input: text
- Output: text
- Tool calling: Supported
- Released: 2025-07-21
- Knowledge cutoff: 2025-05-31
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the context window of qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct?
qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct supports a context window of up to 262,144 tokens.
Does qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct support function calling?
Yes. qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct supports tool / function calling.
What is the knowledge cutoff of qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct?
The knowledge cutoff of qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct is 2025-05-31.