Qwen3-Coder 480B

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B is Alibaba's flagship open coding MoE (480B/35B, 256K–1M context) — frontier agentic coding you can self-host under Apache 2.0.

Best for

• Flagship open agentic coder — rivalled Claude Sonnet 4 / GPT-4.1 at release
• Repo-scale work with native 256K (1M extended) context
• Big-iron option for maximum open coding capability

How it compares — and the India angle

• Apache 2.0 lets Indian teams self-host a frontier coding agent with full data residency.
• The qwen3-coder-plus API (~$0.65/$3.25) is far cheaper than frontier US coding models.
• For single-GPU budgets, smaller Qwen coders (35B/3B) are the lighter self-host pick.