Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
by Qwen
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
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-coderDocs
OpenRouter id: qwen/qwen3-coder
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 11.9 index
- Design Arena codecategories (other): 1145 elo · #87
- Design Arena dataviz (other): 1084 elo · #103
- Design Arena gamedev (other): 1100 elo · #93
- Design Arena uicomponent (other): 1112 elo · #88
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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