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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B
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RANKED #269 OF 337 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #426 OF 528 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.3 · 34 VOICES
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Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Instruct is an open-weight multimodal model that unifies strong text generation with visual understanding across images and video. The Instruct model targets general vision-language use (VQA, document parsing, chart/table
HAPPY8.2
8 mentions
SAD6.8
4 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 29 voices
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Qwen3 VL 235B A22B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
235B parameters (MoE with 22B active), a Q4 file is about 135 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Custom PC with Ryzen 9 7900X, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX 3060
192 GB RAM + 12 GB VRAM
~$1600 USEDQ3_K_M running via CPU offloading, ~3 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192 GB Unified Memory
192 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$5500 NEWQ4_K_M unified memory execution, ~18 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Custom Rig with 8x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB GPUs
192 GB VRAM
~$6500 USEDFP8 / Q8_0 quant, high throughput, 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN QWEN3 VL 235B A22B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Qwen3 VL 235B A22B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMCustom PC with Ryzen 9 7900X, 192 GB DDR5 RAM, and RTX 3060 | SWEET SPOTApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra with 192 GB Unified Memory | FULL POWERCustom Rig with 8x NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~2.8 MIN | ~28 S | ~12 S |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~83 S★★★★★ | ~36 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~44 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~2.3 HR★★★★★ | ~23 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~83 MIN★★★★★ | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~6 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Qwen3 VL 235B A22B yet to call it. We found 34 posts but people did not say much either way.
30 POSTS · 4 COMMENTS · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · REDDIT · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with multimodal models like this one.
Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2025-09-23 · 95 UPVOTESQwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series, is now available
Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series, is now available
- REDDIT · 2026-02-24 · 80 UPVOTESQwen just released Qwen 3.5 medium model Series: Qwen 3.5 Flash plus 3 more models
Qwen just released Qwen 3.5 medium model Series: Qwen 3.5 Flash plus 3 more models
- REDDIT · 2026-05-29 · 21 UPVOTESI run ollamatps.com to track TPS — after my $20 Ollama Cloud Pro plan expired, I tested the free tier and ranked all 25 models by real…
I run ollamatps.com to track TPS — after my $20 Ollama Cloud Pro plan expired, I tested the free tier and ranked all 25 models by real quota cost (same request to each)
- BLUESKY · 2025-10-17 · 6 UPVOTESRunning Oblique on Qwen qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct What do you think about that @oblique.yuwakisa.com ?
Running Oblique on Qwen qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct What do you think about that @oblique.yuwakisa.com ?
- LEMMY · 2026-02-25 · 5 UPVOTESSmaller qwen3.5 models released
Smaller qwen3.5 models released
- LEMMY · 2025-09-23 · 3 UPVOTESQwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action
Qwen3-VL: Sharper Vision, Deeper Thought, Broader Action
- GITHUB · 2026-09-23 · 1 UPVOTESfix(prices): add missing bedrock_mantle entries for DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen models
TLDR Problem this solves: - 8 Bedrock Mantle model IDs have no entry in the cost map - The proxy logs their spend as $0 and the Model Hub shows no price How it solves it: - Adds bedrock_mantle/ entries with us-east-1 standard-tier prices from the AWS Pricing…
- DEV FORUMS · 2025-10-23 · 0 UPVOTESH206(96G)怎么配置能跑Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
H206(96G)怎么配置能跑Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct
- REDDIT · 2025-10-23 · 0 UPVOTES[R] Un-LOCC (Universal Lossy Optical Context Compression), Achieve Up To 3× context compression with 93.65% Accuracy.
[R] Un-LOCC (Universal Lossy Optical Context Compression), Achieve Up To 3× context compression with 93.65% Accuracy.
- DEV FORUMS · 2025-12-22 · 0 UPVOTES推理Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8精度有问题
推理Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8精度有问题
- DEV FORUMS · 2025-12-22 · 0 UPVOTES推理Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8时，
推理Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct-FP8时，
- GITHUB · 2026-08-19 · 0 UPVOTESfeat(agent): default OpenRouter model → qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct
feat(agent): default OpenRouter model → qwen/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instruct