Plain-English Summary
A large open coding model for software agents, repository work, and long autonomous development tasks.
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B
A large open coding model for software agents, repository work, and long autonomous development tasks.
Qwen3-Coder
Coding LLM
Open weights
Open weights: Yes
API: Yes and self-hosted
Technical Notes
480B-total, 35B-active coding MoE with 256K native context and support for extrapolation toward 1M tokens.
Best For
Code agents, repository-scale changes, tool use, software engineering
Watch Out For
Very large to self-host; long-context extrapolation may require tuning and careful evaluation.
Model Specs
- Maker
- Alibaba Cloud / Qwen
- Country
- China
- Family
- Qwen3-Coder
- Type
- Coding LLM
- Release date
- 2025-07-22
- Date confidence
- Exact
- Status
- Open weights
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536
- Parameters
- 480B
- Active parameters
- 35B
- Architecture
- Mixture-of-experts coding transformer
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Host dependent
- API available
- Yes and self-hosted
- Open weights
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Inputs
- Text, code
- Outputs
- Text, code
- Approx. price
- See provider pricing
- How to access
- Provider website
- Model / API ID
- Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Fine-tuning, quantization, self-hosting
- Completeness
- 100 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source