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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Qwen3 VL 235b A22B Instruct.

A model-level benchmark profile for Qwen3 VL 235b A22B Instruct, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

Alibaba lab page

Lab

Alibaba

Open weights

Coverage

56%

5 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#45

Vision Arena

Best suite

#9

Agents / 100

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Qwen3 VL 235b A22B Instruct is strongest on agents.

56% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #9 in the agents view, with a 100 agent proxy. The strongest raw Arena signal is Vision Arena at rank #45 with 12,232 public votes.

Best current lane

Agents

#9 / 100 agent proxy

Strongest raw signal

Vision

#45, 1215 score

Commercial posture

$0.700

1.14s first token / 50 tok/s

Coverage gaps

WebDev ArenaSearch ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

5 of 9 signals matched

56%

Arena categories

2/5

Vision, Text

Commercial match

Live

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct

Open weights

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

1,415#92

1409-1422 CI

11,515 votes

May 27, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

WebDev Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Vision Arena

Arena category

1,215#45

1207-1222 CI

12,232 votes

May 18, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$0.700

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.300

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$1.90

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

1.14s

Median time to first token

Output speed

50 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#6353

value index

blended / 1M tokens$0.700
time to first token1.14s
output speed50 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#953

coding index

Code ArenaNot listed
No confident matchNot listed
output speed50 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#9100

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency1.14s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

#10823

reasoning proxy

Text Arena rank #921,415
Docs ArenaNot listed
Vision Arena rank #451,215

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

#1154

context proxy

Docs ArenaNot listed
Search ArenaNot listed
Text Arena rank #921,415

Lab context

Nearby Alibaba profiles.

Same-lab models make it easier to see whether this profile is a flagship, value play, specialist, or lower-coverage row.

Full lab

Qwen3.7 Max 20260517

qwen3.7-max-20260517

Proprietary

Best rank

#4

Coverage

11%

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

qwen3.6-max-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#13

Coverage

56%

Qwen3.7 Max Preview

qwen3.7-max-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#15

Coverage

44%

Qwen3.7 Plus Preview

qwen3.7-plus-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#16

Coverage

11%

Qwen3.6 Plus

qwen3.6-plus

Proprietary

Best rank

#18

Coverage

56%

Qwen3.5 Max Preview

qwen3.5-max-preview

Proprietary

Best rank

#26

Coverage

11%

Qwen3.5 397b A17B

qwen3.5-397b-a17b

Open weights

Best rank

#29

Coverage

67%

Qwen3.5 122b A10B

qwen3.5-122b-a10b

Open weights

Best rank

#41

Coverage

67%