What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 235B A22B?

Qwen3 235B A22B requires approximately 175.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 235B A22B and how large is it?

Qwen3 235B A22B is developed by Qwen, a model with 235b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 235B A22B?

Qwen3 235B A22B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 235B A22B by Qwen — VRAM 175.9GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 235B A22B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 235B A22B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 235b LLM, VRAM: 175.9GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 Conversational Endpoints compatible Eval-results Qwen3 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B A22B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 235B A22B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B
Model Size	235b
Required VRAM	175.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_moe
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Model Architecture	Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 235B A22B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3 235B A22B GGUF	77	184064	0 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B GPTQ Int4	27	7180	124 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B 128K GGUF	37	6143	0 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B AWQ	11	4322	124 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B 4bit	9	2526	131 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B 8bit	4	2042	238 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B AWQ	14	1207	124 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B 3bit DWQ	5	86	117 GB
Qwen3 235B A22B Mixed 3 6bit	2	56	117 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 235B A22B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...en3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 1M	986K / 171.9 GB	4	1
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	256K / 167.9 GB	28	10
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	256K / 167.9 GB	14	3
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507	256K / 171.9 GB	59472	793
Vivo C V1	256K / 156.4 GB	415	2
... 235B A22B Thinking 2507 NVFP4	256K / 139.2 GB	22828	8
... 235B A22B Instruct 2507 NVFP4	256K / 139.2 GB	14322	10
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507	256K / 171.9 GB	20387	408
...n3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 FP8	256K / 236.5 GB	54126	147
MiroThinker 1.7 Mini	256K / 61.1 GB	584	104

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B.