qwen
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash
qwen/qwen3-coder-flash
Our take
AI-assisted analysis based on the sources below. Suitability is an editorial assessment; test it on your own workload.
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder Flash (qwen/qwen3-coder-flash) is listed in the OpenRouter catalog as Alibaba's faster, more cost-efficient counterpart to the proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus, positioned as a coding agent model for autonomous programming via tool calling. The catalog reports a text-to-text model with a context window of 1,000,000 tokens and a knowledge cutoff of June 30, 2025. Because the only supplied evidence is the OpenRouter listing and no independent model card was available in this source pack, these capabilities are source-reported rather than independently verified.[1]
Strengths
- The OpenRouter catalog describes this variant as optimized for speed and cost efficiency, aimed at agentic coding with tool calling.[1]
- A catalog-reported context window of 1,000,000 tokens could accommodate very large prompts such as full repositories or long sessions.[1]
- The listing exposes agent-oriented controls, including tools, tool_choice, response_format, seed and logprobs parameters.[1]
Limitations
- Evidence is catalog-only: no independent model card or vendor documentation was included in this source pack, so the stated capabilities are unverified.[1]
- The source pack contains no benchmark results, so measured coding performance is unknown and should be validated on your own workloads.[1]
- Only text input and output are listed, and the catalog does not indicate a reasoning mode.[1]
Where to use it
- Editorial suggestion: agentic coding assistants that invoke tools, matching the catalog's stated positioning.[1]
- Long-context code review or repository-scale question answering, if the reported context window performs as described in your own tests.[1]
- Cost-sensitive coding automation where a faster, cheaper variant may be preferable, subject to your own evaluation.[1]
Sources
- [1] OpenRouter catalog · Qwen: Qwen3 Coder FlashSources checked: Nov 13, 2026
About this model
Description below is the original text supplied by OpenRouter, shown in the source language.
Qwen3 Coder Flash is Alibaba's fast and cost efficient version of their proprietary Qwen3 Coder Plus. It is a powerful coding agent model specializing in autonomous programming via tool calling...
Specifications
- Model ID
- qwen/qwen3-coder-flash
- Creator
- qwen
- Added to OpenRouter
- 17.09.2025
- Context length
- 1,000,000
- Modality
- text->text
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Token pricing
- USD per 1M tokens: in $0.195 / out $0.975
- Knowledge cutoff
- 30.06.2025
- Expiration date
- —
Tasks and capabilities
A grade appears only where the source supplies a matching measurement for that task, the model is active and the cohort holds at least 10 comparable models. The capability column lists facts the source declares — supported formats, reasoning and tool parameters — which are not measured quality.
| Task | Grade | Source-declared capability |
|---|---|---|
| General quality | No measurement | — |
| Coding | No measurement | — |
| Agents | No measurement | parameters: tool_choice, tools |
| Writing | No measurement | output: text |
| Reasoning | No measurement | — |
| Document analysis | No measurement | — |
| Vision | No measurement | — |
| Image generation | No measurement | — |
| Audio | No measurement | — |
| Video | No measurement | — |
| Embeddings | No measurement | — |
Evaluations
No evaluations are supplied for this model.
How grades work
Each letter grade compares a model only against other models scored by the same source and metric in the current snapshot. S means the top 10%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the rest. Models without a published measurement are shown as not rated — a supported format alone never implies measured quality.
- S — S — top 10% of the cohort
- A — A — next 20% of the cohort
- B — B — next 30% of the cohort
- C — C — below the B band
Providers
Optional live provider statistics from OpenRouter. Missing values are unknown, not zero.
| Provider | Context length | Price in /1M | Price out /1M | Latency p50 (30m, s) | Throughput p50 (30m, tok/s) | Uptime (30m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | 1,000,000 | $0.195 | $0.975 | — | — | 100% |
Provider data retrieved: 13.11.2026
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