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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)

Alibaba · released

Wins 4 of 7 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Images and charts · Following instructions

Alibaba · released

Wins 0 of 7 areas

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct wins more areas, narrowly.

Scores updated · 51 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.40 to read · $1.60 to write$2.00Price from Alibaba's own price page
Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)$0.18 to read · $2.10 to write$2.28Price from Alibaba's own price page

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs 12% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Completes tasks by operating a computer desktopOSWorld-Verified+32.8points aheadQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct66.7Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)33.9
  • Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+14points aheadQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct35.9Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)21.9
  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+13.3points aheadQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct71.2Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)57.9

Where Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B) pulls ahead

  • Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+4.3points aheadQwen3 VL Thinking (8B)58.6Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct54.3
  • Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+1.7points aheadQwen3 VL Thinking (8B)8.4Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct6.7

Every test, side by side

All 51 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Full coding ranking

AgentsEven

Full agents ranking

ReasoningQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

Images and chartsQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
  • MMMU-ProQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 1167.656.6+11
  • OCRBenchQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 10.19281.9+10.1
  • CharXiv (RQ)Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 9.162.153+9.1
  • MathVistaQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 3.584.981.4+3.5
  • MMStarQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 3.178.475.3+3.1
  • BLINKQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 270.768.7+2

Full images and charts ranking

Long documentsEven

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
  • IFBenchQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct by 2.842.739.9+2.8

Full following instructions ranking

Other results33 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct or Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B)?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct wins four of the seven areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, images and charts and following instructions. Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B) wins none. They are level on agents, facts and long documents.

Which is better for coding?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct. It wins 2 of the 3 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B) wins 1.

Which is cheaper?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 VL Thinking (8B) costs $0.18 and $2.10. That makes Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct about 12% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 51 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 18 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 33 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.