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Qwen 3.5 397B A17B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32b-Instruct

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Qwen2.5-Coder-32b-Instruct
qwen/qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct
ProviderAlibabaAlibaba Qwen
FamilyQwenQwen
Modalitytexttext
Context window256,000 tok32,768 tok
Max output32,768 tok32,768 tok
Released2026-05-142025-02-27
Input price$0.600 /1M$0.660 /1M
Output price$3.60 /1M$1.00 /1M
Cache read
Toolsyesyes
Streamingyesyes
Vision
JSON modeyesyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt caching
Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Full spec →

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 is a 397B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 17B active parameters, offering strong reasoning capabilities with efficient inference.

Strengths
  • MoE efficiency: 17B active of 397B
  • Strong reasoning at low cost
  • 262k context
Qwen2.5-Coder-32b-Instruct
qwen/qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct
Full spec →

Qwen2.5-Coder is the latest series of Code-Specific Qwen large language models (formerly known as CodeQwen). As of now, Qwen2.5-Coder has covered six mainstream model sizes, 0.5, 1.5, 3, 7, 14, 32 billion parameters, to meet the needs of different developers. Qwen2.5-Coder brings the following improvements upon CodeQwen1.5:

Strengths
  • Code-tuned
  • Tool calling
  • Multi-lingual code
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Qwen 3.5 397B A17B
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="alibaba/qwen3.5-397b-a17b",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Qwen2.5-Coder-32b-Instruct — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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