Qwen 3 Coder is the flagship coding model that rivals Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT 4.1 in agentic coding. It has 256K long context for reasoning over repositories, tool use, and agentic performance for complex development tasks.
Key Features
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Agentic Coding Expertise
- Excels in agentic coding, agentic browser-use, and foundational coding tasks
- Achieves performance comparable to Claude Sonnet among open models
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Long-Context Support
- Native 256K token context window, extendable to 1M with Yarn
- Optimized for repository-scale code understanding
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Advanced Agentic Capabilities
- Supports platforms like Qwen Code & CLINE
- Features special function call format for agentic operations
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Model Architecture
- 480B total parameters, 35B activated (Mixture-of-Experts)
- 62 layers, GQA with 96 Q heads & 8 KV heads
- 160 experts, 8 active per inference
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Mode
- Non-thinking model (does not produce
<think>blocks) - Automatically runs in reflex mode without
enable_thinking
- Non-thinking model (does not produce
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Ideal Use Cases
- Large-scale code generation, refactoring, and repository reasoning
- Agentic tool usage for developer workflows