AI model comparison

Trinity Large Thinking vs Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench, agentic workloads, and reasoning tasks.

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.80
Context
262K

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is a multilingual, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts language model based on the Qwen3-235B architecture, with 22B active parameters per forward pass.

Input / 1M
$0.09
Output / 1M
$0.55
Context
262K

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

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Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

2.0x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507

12 vs 10.8 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

Tie

262K vs 262K tokens

Newer release

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Trinity Large Thinking

Released April 1, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking10.8
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 250712

Coding index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking25.8
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Not available

Agentic index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking1
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507Not available

Pricing

Trinity Large Thinking vs Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingqwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.25$0.09
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.80$0.55
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.06Not available
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot availableNot available

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$0.90
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$0.46

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$10.70$5 cached
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$4.90

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$39.10$10.60 cached
qwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507$14.60

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingqwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Max output80K tokens16K tokens
Input typesTextText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableNot available
Default reasoning effortNot availableNot available
Release dateApril 1, 2026July 21, 2025

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingqwen logoQwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsNot supportedSupported
JSON modeNot supportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedNot supported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is 2.0x cheaper for a typical chat. Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (12 vs 10.8). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Trinity Large Thinking or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 cheaper?

Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 costs $0.09 per 1M input tokens and $0.55 per 1M output tokens, while Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.80 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507?

Trinity Large Thinking supports up to 262K tokens of context, compared with 262K for Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507.

Is Trinity Large Thinking smarter than Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Trinity Large Thinking scores 10.8 and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 scores 12, putting Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.