QwenLM / qwen3-coder

Qwen3-Coder: Alibaba's most agentic code models with exceptional long context support for software engineering tasks.

Models

ModelSizeContext LengthInput Modalities
qwen3-coder-480b480B256KText

Qwen3-Coder: Advanced Agentic Code Models

Qwen3-Coder represents the most agentic code model to date in the Qwen series, designed specifically for real-world software engineering tasks. This generation combines exceptional long context support with advanced execution-driven reinforcement learning to deliver state-of-the-art performance on complex coding challenges.

Key Features

  • Exceptional Agentic Capabilities: Advanced long-horizon reinforcement learning on SWE-Bench and similar benchmarks enables superior performance on real-world software engineering tasks.
  • Long Context Support: Native 256K token context with extrapolation capabilities up to 1M tokens, optimized for repository-scale understanding and large codebase navigation.
  • Scaled Pretraining: Trained on 7.5T tokens with 70% code ratio while preserving strong general and mathematical abilities, ensuring comprehensive coverage of programming concepts.
  • Execution-Driven Reinforcement Learning: Significantly boosts code execution success rates across diverse real-world coding tasks, improving reliability and practical applicability.
  • Repository-Level Understanding: Optimized for working with entire code repositories, enabling better context awareness and more accurate code generation and analysis.

Model Variants

NameSizeContextInput ModalitiesDescription
qwen3-coder-480b480B256KText480B parameter model

Technical Capabilities

Advanced Code Understanding

Qwen3-Coder excels at:

  • Repository-Scale Analysis: Understanding and navigating large codebases
  • Code Generation: Producing high-quality, context-aware code snippets
  • Bug Detection: Identifying and suggesting fixes for code issues
  • Documentation Generation: Creating comprehensive code documentation

Long Context Processing

  • Native 256K token context window
  • Extrapolation support up to 1M tokens
  • Optimized for entire repository understanding
  • Efficient processing of large codebases

Agentic Software Engineering

  • SWE-Bench Performance: State-of-the-art results on software engineering benchmarks
  • Tool Integration: Advanced function calling and tool usage capabilities
  • Long-Horizon Planning: Ability to handle complex, multi-step software tasks
  • Execution-Driven Learning: Improved code execution success rates

Use Cases

Software Development

  • Code Generation: Create production-ready code from natural language descriptions
  • Code Review: Automated code review and quality assessment
  • Refactoring: Intelligent code refactoring and optimization
  • Bug Fixing: Automated bug detection and repair

DevOps and Automation

  • CI/CD Pipeline Optimization: Automate and optimize continuous integration/deployment workflows
  • Infrastructure as Code: Generate and manage infrastructure configurations
  • Automated Testing: Create comprehensive test suites and test cases

Research and Education

  • Algorithm Design: Assist in complex algorithm development
  • Code Explanation: Generate human-readable explanations of code functionality
  • Learning Assistance: Provide interactive coding tutorials and guidance
  • Research Prototyping: Accelerate research through rapid prototyping

Benchmarks

Qwen3-Coder demonstrates exceptional performance on key software engineering benchmarks:

SWE-Bench (Software Engineering Tasks)

ModelSuccess Rate (%)
qwen3-coder-480b82.4
Previous SOTA76.8
Baseline Models65.2

HumanEval (Code Generation)

ModelPass@1 (%)
qwen3-coder-480b92.5
Previous SOTA88.7
Baseline Models78.3

MBPP (Programming Problems)

ModelAccuracy (%)
qwen3-coder-480b89.2
Previous SOTA85.6
Baseline Models76.4

Getting Started

Qwen3-Coder models are available through various API providers. For more information: