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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (Jul 2025)

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (Jul 2025) is an open-weights language model from Qwen, released July 25, 2025. It has 235B parameters (mixture-of-experts, 22B active). On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 138.1, rank 132 of 256 rated models.

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Lab
Qwen
Released
July 25, 2025
Weights
Open unrestricted
Parameters
235B MoE · 22B active
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Epoch ECI
138.1 #132

Can you run Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct (Jul 2025) locally?

The smallest common GPU it runs on is 32 GB of VRAM (with 32 GB of RAM): IQ1_M, GPU + experts in RAM, roughly 20 tokens per second. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.

GPU memoryVerdictBest quantVRAMRAMtok/s
6 GB VRAMToo large––––
8 GB VRAMToo large––––
12 GB VRAMToo large––––
16 GB VRAMToo large––––
24 GB VRAMToo large––––
32 GB VRAMRuns · GPU + CPU expertsIQ1_M (experimental)31.2 GB24.8 GB~20

Benchmark results

Benchmark (Epoch AI)Score
Aider Polyglot59.6%

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Epoch AI benchmarks

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Data updated Thu, 12 Nov 2026 09:42 UTC. Benchmarks, Capabilities Index and model announcements: Epoch AI, “Capabilities & benchmarking” and “Data on AI models” (CC BY 4.0); category scores are ModelTape's own fit on Epoch's results. Releases and prices: models.dev (MIT). Sizes and quantizations: Hugging Face. “Runs on” figures are estimates from model size, quantization and memory bandwidth (±30–50%).
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