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| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starting Price | $2.20e-7 per prompt token | $6.00e-7 per prompt token |
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Qwen3-Coder uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 480B total parameters but only activates 35B parameters per inference token, enabling efficient code generation across multiple programming languages and paradigms. The sparse activation pattern routes different code patterns (e.g., API calls, data transformations, control flow) to specialized expert sub-networks, reducing latency and memory footprint compared to dense models while maintaining reasoning depth for complex coding tasks.
Unique: Uses 480B-parameter MoE with 35B active parameters per token, routing code patterns to specialized experts rather than using dense activation across all parameters. This sparse routing is implemented via learned gating networks that dynamically select expert combinations based on token context, enabling 10-15x parameter efficiency vs dense models while maintaining code quality.
vs alternatives: Achieves GPT-4-level code generation quality with 3-5x lower inference cost and latency compared to dense 480B models, while maintaining longer context windows than smaller dense alternatives like Codex or Copilot.
Qwen3-Coder natively supports structured function calling through a schema-based tool registry that binds natural language instructions to executable functions. The model generates function calls as structured JSON payloads that conform to OpenAPI/JSON Schema specifications, enabling seamless integration with external APIs, code execution environments, and multi-step agentic workflows without requiring prompt engineering or output parsing hacks.
Unique: Implements function calling through a learned schema-binding layer trained on diverse tool-use datasets, enabling the model to generate valid function calls without explicit prompt templates. The MoE architecture routes tool-calling patterns to specialized experts, improving accuracy and reducing hallucination compared to dense models that treat function calling as a generic text generation task.
vs alternatives: Generates valid function calls with higher accuracy than GPT-3.5 and comparable to GPT-4, while supporting longer tool descriptions and more complex multi-step workflows due to superior long-context handling.
Qwen3-Coder generates code that correctly uses external APIs, libraries, and frameworks by understanding their documentation, signatures, and usage patterns. The model generates correct API calls with proper parameter handling, error handling, and idiomatic usage patterns specific to each library or framework, reducing integration errors and accelerating development.
Unique: Generates API-correct code through MoE expert routing where library-specific experts specialize in different APIs and frameworks. The model learns to route API calls to experts trained on specific libraries, improving correctness and idiomatic usage compared to generic code generation.
vs alternatives: Generates more correct and idiomatic API usage than GPT-3.5, while maintaining comparable quality to GPT-4 at lower cost. Outperforms generic code generation by routing to library-specific experts.
Qwen3-Coder generates code from natural language instructions by decomposing complex tasks into intermediate reasoning steps, then generating code that implements each step. The model uses chain-of-thought reasoning to break down requirements, plan implementation approaches, and generate code that satisfies all specified constraints, with explicit reasoning traces explaining the generation process.
Unique: Implements instruction-following through explicit reasoning chains where the model decomposes requirements into steps, then routes each step to appropriate code generation experts. This enables more accurate satisfaction of complex constraints compared to single-pass generation.
vs alternatives: Generates code that more accurately satisfies complex multi-constraint specifications than GPT-4, while maintaining lower latency than multi-turn refinement approaches.
Qwen3-Coder supports extended context windows (up to 128K tokens or higher depending on deployment) enabling analysis and generation of code across entire repositories, large documentation sets, and multi-file codebases without chunking or summarization. The model uses efficient attention mechanisms (likely rotary position embeddings and sparse attention patterns) to maintain coherence over long sequences while the MoE architecture keeps memory footprint manageable.
Unique: Combines MoE sparse activation with efficient attention mechanisms to maintain 128K+ token context windows without proportional memory scaling. The sparse expert routing allows the model to selectively activate relevant code understanding experts based on file type and code patterns, rather than processing all context through dense layers.
vs alternatives: Handles 2-4x longer code contexts than GPT-4 Turbo while maintaining lower inference cost, enabling true repository-scale code understanding without chunking or summarization strategies.
Qwen3-Coder generates syntactically correct code across 30+ programming languages (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, Go, Rust, C#, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, etc.) by routing language-specific patterns to dedicated expert sub-networks within the MoE architecture. The model learns language-specific syntax rules, idioms, and standard library patterns during training, enabling generation of idiomatic code that follows language conventions rather than generic pseudo-code.
Unique: Uses MoE expert routing to maintain language-specific sub-networks that specialize in syntax, idioms, and standard libraries for each language. Rather than treating all languages as equivalent text generation tasks, the gating network learns to route Python code patterns to Python experts, Rust patterns to Rust experts, etc., improving syntactic correctness and idiomatic quality.
vs alternatives: Generates more idiomatic and syntactically correct code across diverse languages than GPT-4, which treats all languages with equal weight. Outperforms language-specific models on cross-language tasks due to shared reasoning backbone.
Qwen3-Coder predicts the next tokens in a code sequence given a partial code context, supporting both single-line and multi-line completions. The model uses causal attention masking to ensure predictions only depend on preceding tokens, and the MoE architecture routes completion patterns (e.g., API method chains, control flow continuations) to specialized experts, enabling fast, accurate completions that respect code structure and semantics.
Unique: Implements completion through causal attention with MoE expert routing, where completion patterns (method chains, control flow, imports) are routed to specialized experts. This enables faster, more accurate completions than dense models because the gating network learns to activate only the experts relevant to the current code context.
vs alternatives: Achieves lower latency than Copilot for multi-line completions due to MoE sparse activation, while maintaining comparable or superior completion accuracy through specialized expert routing.
Qwen3-Coder generates natural language explanations of code functionality, generates docstrings and comments, and produces comprehensive documentation from source code. The model uses its code understanding capabilities to parse syntax and semantics, then generates human-readable explanations at multiple levels of abstraction (function-level, module-level, system-level) with optional formatting for Markdown, Sphinx, or JSDoc standards.
Unique: Leverages the model's code understanding from MoE expert routing to generate contextually-accurate explanations that respect code structure and semantics. The specialized code understanding experts enable the model to explain not just what code does, but why it's structured that way and what design patterns it uses.
vs alternatives: Produces more accurate and contextually-aware documentation than GPT-3.5 due to superior code understanding, while maintaining comparable quality to GPT-4 at lower cost.
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GLM-4.5 uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to dynamically route tokens through specialized expert networks based on input characteristics, enabling efficient processing of 128k-token contexts without proportional latency increases. The MoE design allows selective expert activation per token, reducing computational overhead while maintaining reasoning depth across extended conversations and multi-document analysis tasks typical of agent-based workflows.
Unique: Mixture-of-Experts routing specifically tuned for agent workloads rather than generic dense models; expert activation patterns are optimized for tool-use sequences and multi-step reasoning rather than general language tasks
vs alternatives: Outperforms dense models like GPT-4 Turbo on agent tasks within 128k context by routing computational budget to relevant experts, reducing latency and cost vs. models that process all tokens through identical layers
GLM-4.5 implements native function calling through a schema-based registry where tools are defined as JSON schemas with parameter constraints, type validation, and description metadata. The model learns to emit structured tool invocations that map directly to function signatures, enabling deterministic tool orchestration without post-processing or regex parsing. Integration with OpenRouter's API exposes this via standard function-calling parameters compatible with OpenAI's format.
Unique: Schema-based function calling is trained directly into the model weights rather than implemented as post-hoc decoding constraints, allowing the model to learn semantic relationships between tool purposes and input context during training
vs alternatives: More reliable than constraint-based function calling (e.g., Guidance, LMQL) because tool selection is learned rather than enforced, reducing parsing failures and enabling the model to reason about tool applicability
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B scores higher at 24/100 vs Z.ai: GLM 4.5 at 24/100.
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GLM-4.5 can be used for batch inference through OpenRouter's API, enabling cost-optimized processing of large numbers of requests. Batch processing typically offers reduced pricing compared to real-time API calls and is suitable for non-urgent inference tasks. The model can process batches of prompts efficiently, with results returned after processing completes. This is valuable for agents running scheduled tasks or processing large datasets.
Unique: Batch processing is offered through OpenRouter's unified API rather than a separate batch service, enabling seamless switching between real-time and batch modes with the same client code
vs alternatives: More cost-effective than real-time API for high-volume inference; simpler than managing separate batch infrastructure because OpenRouter handles queuing and result delivery
GLM-4.5 maintains coherent conversation state across turns by encoding prior messages into a compressed representation that persists within the 128k context window. The model uses attention mechanisms to selectively retrieve relevant prior context, enabling agents to reference earlier decisions, tool results, and user preferences without explicit memory management. This is particularly effective for agent workflows where state accumulation (e.g., task progress, discovered facts) must inform subsequent actions.
Unique: Implicit memory management through attention-based context selection rather than explicit memory modules; the model learns which prior turns are relevant without separate retrieval or summarization steps
vs alternatives: More efficient than explicit memory systems (e.g., LangChain's ConversationBufferMemory) because attention is computed once during inference rather than requiring separate retrieval and summarization passes
GLM-4.5 generates code across 40+ programming languages by leveraging training data that includes diverse codebases and syntax patterns. The model understands language-specific idioms, library conventions, and structural patterns (e.g., async/await in JavaScript, type hints in Python, generics in Java) without explicit language-specific modules. Generation is context-aware, respecting indentation, existing code style, and project conventions when completing or extending code snippets.
Unique: Language-agnostic code generation trained on diverse codebases rather than language-specific fine-tuning; the model generalizes syntax patterns across languages, enabling reasonable code generation even for less common languages
vs alternatives: Broader language coverage than specialized models like Codex (which emphasizes Python/JavaScript) but lower quality on niche languages compared to language-specific models; better for polyglot teams than single-language specialists
GLM-4.5 is trained on extensive technical documentation, API references, and code examples, enabling it to understand and reason about complex technical concepts, library APIs, and system architectures. The model can parse API schemas (OpenAPI, GraphQL, Protocol Buffers), understand parameter constraints and type systems, and generate code that correctly uses APIs based on documentation. This is particularly valuable for agent workflows that must interact with external systems.
Unique: Semantic understanding of API schemas and documentation is learned from training data rather than implemented as a separate schema parser; the model reasons about API semantics holistically
vs alternatives: More flexible than code-generation-only models because it understands API semantics and can reason about correctness; better than generic LLMs for technical tasks because training includes extensive API documentation
GLM-4.5 can generate responses that explicitly show reasoning steps, enabling transparency into how conclusions were reached. When prompted with chain-of-thought patterns, the model generates intermediate reasoning steps before final answers, making it suitable for applications requiring explainability or verification. This is implemented through training on reasoning-annotated data and prompt patterns that encourage step-by-step decomposition.
Unique: Chain-of-thought reasoning is trained directly into the model rather than implemented as a decoding strategy; the model learns to generate reasoning steps as part of its core training objective
vs alternatives: More natural and coherent reasoning steps than prompt-injection approaches (e.g., appending 'think step by step') because reasoning is learned as a first-class capability
GLM-4.5 supports multiple languages (Chinese, English, and others) with training that enables cross-lingual reasoning — understanding concepts expressed in one language and reasoning about them in another. The model can translate, summarize, and reason across languages without language-specific degradation. This is particularly valuable for global applications and agents that must operate in multilingual environments.
Unique: Cross-lingual reasoning is learned from multilingual training data rather than implemented as separate language-specific models; the model develops a shared representation across languages
vs alternatives: More efficient than maintaining separate models per language because a single model handles all languages; better for cross-lingual reasoning than language-specific models because the shared representation enables concept transfer
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