Qwen3-Coder
Open Weights
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba's most powerful open-weight coding model (July 2025), a 480B-parameter mixture-of-experts with 35B active parameters built for agentic coding. It targets repository-scale software tasks with a very long context window and strong tool-use and code-generation performance.
Strengths
- Alibaba's most powerful open-weight coding model
- 480B-parameter MoE with 35B active parameters
- Built for agentic, repository-scale coding
- 256K native context, extensible toward 1M
- Permissive Apache 2.0 license
Caveats
- Very large - demanding to self-host at full precision
- Text-only (no vision input)
- Specialized for coding over general chat
- Vendor
- Alibaba Cloud
- Context Window
- 262,144 tokens
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Release Date
- 2025-07-24
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under Apache 2.0 - free to download and self-host; hosted API providers vary. 256K native context, extensible to ~1M.