What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 235B A22B?

Qwen3 235B A22B requires approximately 171.9 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 unsloth, a model with 235b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen3 235B A22B perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen3 235B A22B has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1375. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen3 235B A22B by unsloth — VRAM 171.9GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 235B A22B
Author: unsloth

Qwen3 235B A22B is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 235b LLM, VRAM: 171.9GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31, ELO: 1375.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22... Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen3 moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

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

Qwen3 235B A22B Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1375 vs 1272 (so35) 8.1%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Qwen3 235B A22B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 235B A22B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-235B-A22B
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B
Model Size	235b
Required VRAM	171.9 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	qwen3_moe
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Model Architecture	Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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