Qwen3 235B-A22B
A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.
Overview
Qwen3-235B-A22B is Alibaba's open-weights MoE model (235B total, 22B active parameters) that switches between a deep-thinking mode for complex reasoning and a fast dialogue mode, with a clear focus on agentic tool use and 100+ languages. Context reaches 131,072 tokens via YaRN. Its scale still demands a multi-GPU server setup for any serious on-premise deployment. Released under Apache 2.0, it can nonetheless be self-hosted entirely within Europe, keeping data local.
Skill profile
Not disclosed
Three independent measures
What people prefer, what the model can do, what the market uses. Each source has its biases and none is enough on its own: we show them side by side, never blended.
Strengths
- World-class on Arena
- Open-source and self-hostable
Limitations
- API pricing not disclosed
Who is it for
- you want to control cost or self-host
- your data must stay in the EU
Ideal use cases
- Multi-step tool-using agents
- Broad multilingual support
- On-prem complex reasoning
- IT workflow automation
- Sovereign internal chatbots
Access & availability
Key specifications
What it costs per month
Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.
Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.
nAIvigate Trust Index
What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.
19/19 criteria documented · 100 % · 12 of them set by rule
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[](https://naivigate.com/en/model/qwen3-235b)Data & compliance
What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.
| EU data residency | Yes |
| Data processing agreement (DPA) | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Transfer outside the EU | No |
| Training on your data | No |
| Configurable retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Zero Data Retention | N/A· self-hosted: data never leaves |
| Self-hostable | Yes |
| Declared hosting | self |
Quality of this card’s data
This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.
6/8 documented · 2/8 primary sources
Run it locally
| Quantization | Disk | RAM / VRAM | Typical hardware |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 · recommended | 133.9 GB | 149 GB | Server GPU infra (H100/A100…) |
| Q8 · balanced | 251.5 GB | 279 GB | Server GPU infra (H100/A100…) |
| FP16 · max quality | 470 GB | 519 GB | Server GPU infra (H100/A100…) |
Estimates for a moderate context. Long contexts need more RAM (KV cache).
Deploy
Copy-ready commands generated from this card. Adjust context length and GPU count to your hardware.
Easiest way to try it on a workstation. Install Ollama, then:
ollama run qwen3:235bAdvanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
| Arena Elo | 1375 |
| MMLU | — |
| GPQA | — |
| HumanEval | — |
| SWE-Bench | — |
| MATH | — |