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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, to

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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over...

Best for

Best for
Dedicated coding agents on a budget

Use cases

  • code completion agents
  • PR drafts
  • test generation

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `qwen/qwen3-coder`.

  • openrouter · qwen/qwen3-coder Docs

OpenRouter id: qwen/qwen3-coder

Benchmarks

  • Design Arena codecategories (other) : 1180 elo · #59
  • Design Arena dataviz (other) : 1118 elo · #81
  • Design Arena gamedev (other) : 1160 elo · #63
  • Design Arena uicomponent (other) : 1157 elo · #62

Enterprise DNA angle

Omni can run Qwen Coder as the coding specialist beside a generalist planner model.

Notes

Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

Pros

  • Coding-specialist Qwen line at competitive cost
  • Strong open-weight-adjacent option via OpenRouter

Cons

  • Narrower generalist quality than frontier closed models
  • Endpoint quality can vary
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