AI model comparison

Trinity Large Thinking vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

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-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team.

Input / 1M
$0.30
Output / 1M
$1
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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Trinity Large Thinking

1.2x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B

11.9 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 Coder 480B A35B11.9

Coding index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking25.8
qwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35BNot available

Agentic index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking1
qwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35BNot available

Pricing

Trinity Large Thinking vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingqwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.25$0.30
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.80$1
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.06$0.10
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 Coder 480B A35B$1.10

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$10.70$5 cached
qwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35B$13$7 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$39.10$10.60 cached
qwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35B$47$17 cached

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 Coder 480B A35B
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Max output80K tokens66K tokens
Input typesTextText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableNot available
Default reasoning effortNot availableNot available
Release dateApril 1, 2026July 23, 2025

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingqwen logoQwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsNot supportedSupported
JSON modeNot supportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedNot supported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

Trinity Large Thinking is 1.2x cheaper for a typical chat. Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (11.9 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 Coder 480B A35B cheaper?

Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.80 per 1M output tokens, while Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

Trinity Large Thinking supports up to 262K tokens of context, compared with 262K for Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B.

Is Trinity Large Thinking smarter than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Trinity Large Thinking scores 10.8 and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B scores 11.9, putting Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 Coder 480B A35B at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Trinity Large Thinking and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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 Coder 480B A35B at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.