Qwen3-Coder 480B
AlibabaCODE Open weight
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Modality
- CODE
- Parameters
- 480B
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Weights
- Open
- Released
- 22 Jul 2025
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B is Alibaba's flagship open coding MoE (480B/35B, 256K–1M context) — frontier agentic coding you can self-host under Apache 2.0.
Best for
- Flagship open agentic coder — rivalled Claude Sonnet 4 / GPT-4.1 at release
- Repo-scale work with native 256K (1M extended) context
- Big-iron option for maximum open coding capability
How it compares — and the India angle
- Apache 2.0 lets Indian teams self-host a frontier coding agent with full data residency.
- The qwen3-coder-plus API (~$0.65/$3.25) is far cheaper than frontier US coding models.
- For single-GPU budgets, smaller Qwen coders (35B/3B) are the lighter self-host pick.
Benchmarks
Representative public scores (approximate, higher is better) for relative comparison. Check the provider for the latest official results.
Aider Polyglot62
How to access
Free to self-host (Apache 2.0). Managed qwen3-coder-plus ~$0.65 / 1M input, ~$3.25 / 1M output.
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