Qwen3-235B-A22B
Official · BF16 · safetensors
Runtime certified: Transformers
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Qwen · General · Qwen3
Qwen3 235B-A22B: Specs, GPU requirements, hosting & deployment
Qwen3 235B-A22B is a recent General release in the Qwen family, certified from its immutable official source revision.
Total parameters235.0B
Active parameters22.0B
Context window40,960 tokens
Release statusRecent · Recent
ArchitectureQwen3MoeForCausalLM
ModalitiesText
LicenseApache License 2.0
Deployment stateDeployable with certified configuration
Commercial stateCommercial Use Allowed
Release date2025-04-27
Architecture, strengths and use cases
Qwen3 235B-A22B is an official self-hostable Qwen release in the Qwen General track. It uses Qwen3MoeForCausalLM, carries 235B / 22B MoE, supports a verified context window of 40,960 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.
Qwen3 235B-A22B uses Qwen3MoeForCausalLM with 235B / 22B MoE. The stored architecture profile records 94 layers, hidden width 4096, 64 attention heads and a 40,960 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.
Verified Qwen3MoeForCausalLM architecture
40,960 token certified context
Official BF16, Unknown checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing
Certified checkpoints and quantizations
Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.
Recommended hardware
Use only the listed transformers runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.
Estimated weight memory450.85 GB
KV cache1.47 GB
Runtime overhead114.69 GB
Total with safety margin703.1 GB
Technically compatible reference sizing
No current FusionPointAI inventory passes every runtime, architecture, topology and memory gate for this exact checkpoint. Use the estimator for global compatible hardware.
License and self-hosting considerations
The full 235B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.
Qwen3 235B-A22B is published under Apache License 2.0. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.
Commercial Use Allowed. The official license permits commercial use; its obligations still apply.
Alternatives and sibling variants
Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507, Qwen3 8B, Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B, Qwen3.8 27B
Release timeline
qwen/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b
Source details
Source revision: fd813fb51be324f0967d4ce6f7b2d172908d74455e1aa47ff16d263f5cfdff85
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does Qwen3 235B-A22B require?
The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.
Which runtimes support Qwen3 235B-A22B?
Certified upstream runtime evidence is available for transformers.
Can Qwen3 235B-A22B be used commercially?
The stored commercial classification is Commercial Use Allowed. Consult the official Apache License 2.0 terms for the final obligations.
Official references
Last verified: 2026-08-26