Alibaba: qwen3-coder-flash API
A high-performance coding model released by Alibaba Cloud on July 29, 2025. Positioning itself as the "speed-optimized flagship" of the Qwen3-Coder family, it is the commercial alias for Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct. Built on an MoE architecture with 30.5B total and 3.3B active (A3B) parameters, it is finely tuned for ultra-fast completions, real-time diagnostics, and agile Agentic workflows. It inherits the robust tool-calling and repository-scale understanding of the Coder-Plus version while offering significantly lower latency and cost. It has become the premier choice for local developers and high-concurrency production environments in 2026.
- Context window: 262,144 tokens
- Max output: 65,536 tokens
- Input: text
- Output: text
- Tool calling: Supported
- Released: 2025-07-28
- Knowledge cutoff: 2025-03-31
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the context window of qwen3-coder-flash?
qwen3-coder-flash supports a context window of up to 262,144 tokens.
Does qwen3-coder-flash support function calling?
Yes. qwen3-coder-flash supports tool / function calling.
What is the knowledge cutoff of qwen3-coder-flash?
The knowledge cutoff of qwen3-coder-flash is 2025-03-31.