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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we're excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct. featuring the following key enhancements:

Params
480.2 B
Context
262,144
Downloads 30d
54 K
Likes
1,384
Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 960.3 GB 1,128.9 GB ❌ Won’t fit
model.safetensors (bf16, full) bf16 + 256K ctx 960.3 GB 3,361.6 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub
~ · curl · api/v1
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
{
  "hf_id": "Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct",
  "params_b": 480.15,
  "context_length": 262144,
  "license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 54127,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 1128.9 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19T06:00:51Z"
}
est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.30
input / 1M
$1.00
output / 1M
$0.10
cached input / 1M
$1.30
1M in + 1M out
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
65,536 tokens
Providers
3
Cheapest provider
DeepInfra · $0.30 / $1.00
Best throughput
—
AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
11.9 / — / —
✓ Tool calling ✗ Reasoning ✓ Structured outputs ✗ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Parameters
480.2 B
Tensor type
BF16
Context length
262,144
Vocabulary
151,936
Layers / heads
62 / 96
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2025-07-22
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-10-20
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