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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is an open-weight language model from Alibaba Qwen, released on February 16, 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 397B total parameters, of which 17B are active for each token. Alibaba Qwen lists a context window of 262,144 tokens natively, extensible to about 1M. The model accepts text and image input.

Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
February 16, 2026
Total parameters
397B
Active parameters per token
17B
Architecture
MoE
Context window
256K
Input
Text, image
License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
806.8 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
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The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 807 GB. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
397B
Active parameters, billions
17B
Context window, tokens
262.14K
License type
Apache 2.0
License conditions
Apache 2.0, with no user or revenue limits.
Official quantized or alternative versions
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-FP8; Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B-GPTQ-Int4
License text
huggingface.co
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
GitHub filehttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.6/main/README.md
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