Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is an open-weights language model from Qwen, released April 1, 2025. It has 480B parameters (mixture-of-experts, 35B active). The context window is 256K tokens. API price: $1.5 input / $7.5 output per million tokens.
Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we're excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct.
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Can you run Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. 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 memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Too large | – | – | – | – |
Ready-made quantizations on Hugging Face: unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF · bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF · lmstudio-community/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF · unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-1M-GGUF · tachyphylaxis/Huihui-Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-abliterated-GGUF · DevQuasar/Qwen.Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-GGUF
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
Links
Announcement · Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
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