Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

Besides all the Qwen models from the last episode, Qwen just can't stop releasing new models. Qwen3 Coder comes in two different sizes - the larger of which is actually competitive with Sonnet in various tests. The model is so popular that inference providers offer subscriptions to use it akin to Claude Max to gain market share.

As we mentioned last time, Qwen is becoming increasingly professionalized and playing the Google playbook, offering 1,000-2,000 free requests per day (depending on location) for their Gemini CLI fork. Qwen thus takes coding very seriously and is certainly a credible alternative to all those closed-source models.