Is qwen3-coder-480b-a35b deprecated?

Q: Is qwen3-coder-480b-a35b deprecated?

Not yet, but retirement is scheduled. Sunset scheduled for 2027-03-30, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

RETIRING IN 150 DAYS

Sunset scheduled for 2027-03-30, reported by a third-party catalog. The identifier still resolves today.

state=dying sunset=2027-03-30 days_remaining=150 severity=high sources=litellm evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=single-source divergent_fields=none checked=2026-10-31 05:09Z

alibaba/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b

Vendor: alibaba. Tracked by 1 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0	262,144	16,384	$0.45	$1.8	2027-03-30

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
low	modified	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: context_tokens raised 131,072 to 262,144	2026-10-18
high	modified	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: context_tokens cut 262,000 to 131,072	2026-10-07
high	modified	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: max_output_tokens cut 65,536 to 16,384	2026-10-07
medium	deprecated	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: deprecation announced for 2027-03-30 — in 174 days	2026-10-07
medium	deprecated	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: retires 2027-03-30 (in 174 days)	2026-10-07
medium	repriced	qwen.qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-v1:0: input_price_per_mtok $0.22/Mtok to $0.45/Mtok	2026-09-06