---
language:
- en
base_model:
- Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- qwen
- qwen3
- qwen3_moe
- conversational
- fp8
- text-generation-inference
- compressed-tensors
- code
license: apache-2.0
license_name: apache-2.0
name: RedHatAI/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8
description: A quantized version of the Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct model, optimized for agentic coding and browser-use tasks, with FP8 data type quantization.
readme: https://huggingface.co/RedHatAI/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8/main/README.md
tasks:
- text-to-text
- text-generation
- code-generation
provider: Alibaba Cloud
license_link: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
validated_on:
  - RHOAI 2.25
  - RHAIIS 3.2.2
---

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## Highlights

Today, we're announcing **Qwen3-Coder**, our most agentic code model to date. **Qwen3-Coder** is available in multiple sizes, but we're excited to introduce its most powerful variant first: **Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct**. featuring the following key enhancements:  

- **Significant Performance** among open models on **Agentic Coding**, **Agentic Browser-Use**, and other foundational coding tasks, achieving results comparable to Claude Sonnet.
- **Long-context Capabilities** with native support for **256K** tokens, extendable up to **1M** tokens using Yarn, optimized for repository-scale understanding.
- **Agentic Coding** supporting for most platform such as **Qwen Code**, **CLINE**, featuring a specially designed function call format.

![image/jpeg](https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3-Coder/qwen3-coder-main.jpg)

## Model Overview

**Qwen3-480B-A35B-Instruct** has the following features:
- Type: Causal Language Models
- Training Stage: Pretraining & Post-training
- Number of Parameters: 480B in total and 35B activated
- Number of Layers: 62
- Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 96 for Q and 8 for KV
- Number of Experts: 160
- Number of Activated Experts: 8
- Context Length: **262,144 natively**. 

**NOTE: This model supports only non-thinking mode and does not generate ``<think></think>`` blocks in its output. Meanwhile, specifying `enable_thinking=False` is no longer required.**

For more details, including benchmark evaluation, hardware requirements, and inference performance, please refer to our [blog](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3-coder/), [GitHub](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder), and [Documentation](https://qwen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

- **ModelCar Storage URI:** oci://registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-fp8:1.5
- **Validated on RHOAI 2.25:** quay.io/modh/vllm:rhoai-2.25-cuda
- **Validated on RHAIIS 3.2.2:** http://registry.redhat.io/rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9:3.2.2


## Quickstart

We advise you to use the latest version of `transformers`.

With `transformers<4.51.0`, you will encounter the following error:
```
KeyError: 'qwen3_moe'
```

The following contains a code snippet illustrating how to use the model generate content based on given inputs. 
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Qwen/Qwen3-480B-A35B-Instruct"

# load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

# prepare the model input
prompt = "Write a quick sort algorithm."
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

# conduct text completion
generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=65536
)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):].tolist() 

content = tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)

print("content:", content)
```

**Note: If you encounter out-of-memory (OOM) issues, consider reducing the context length to a shorter value, such as `32,768`.**


## Deployment

This model can be deployed efficiently using the [vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) backend, as shown in the example below.

```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
model_id = "RedHatAI/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8"
number_gpus = 8
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, max_tokens=1024)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
prompt = "Give me a short introduction to large language model."
llm = LLM(model=model_id, tensor_parallel_size=number_gpus)
outputs = llm.generate(prompt, sampling_params)
generated_text = outputs[0].outputs[0].text
print(generated_text)
```

vLLM also supports OpenAI-compatible serving. See the [documentation](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) for more details.

<details>
  <summary>Deploy on <strong>Red Hat AI Inference Server</strong></summary>
  
```bash
podman run --rm -it --device nvidia.com/gpu=all -p 8000:8000 \
 --ipc=host \
--env "HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=$HF_TOKEN" \
--env "HF_HUB_OFFLINE=0" -v ~/.cache/vllm:/home/vllm/.cache \
--name=vllm \
registry.access.redhat.com/rhaiis/rh-vllm-cuda \
vllm serve \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--max-model-len 32768  \
--enforce-eager --model RedHatAI/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8
```
</details>


<details>
  <summary>Deploy on <strong>Red Hat Openshift AI</strong></summary>
  
```python
# Setting up vllm server with ServingRuntime
# Save as: vllm-servingruntime.yaml
apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1alpha1
kind: ServingRuntime
metadata:
 name: vllm-cuda-runtime # OPTIONAL CHANGE: set a unique name
 annotations:
   openshift.io/display-name: vLLM NVIDIA GPU ServingRuntime for KServe
   opendatahub.io/recommended-accelerators: '["nvidia.com/gpu"]'
 labels:
   opendatahub.io/dashboard: 'true'
spec:
 annotations:
   prometheus.io/port: '8080'
   prometheus.io/path: '/metrics'
 multiModel: false
 supportedModelFormats:
   - autoSelect: true
     name: vLLM
 containers:
   - name: kserve-container
     image: quay.io/modh/vllm:rhoai-2.25-cuda # CHANGE if needed. If AMD: quay.io/modh/vllm:rhoai-2.25-rocm
     command:
       - python
       - -m
       - vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server
     args:
       - "--port=8080"
       - "--model=/mnt/models"
       - "--served-model-name={{.Name}}"
     env:
       - name: HF_HOME
         value: /tmp/hf_home
     ports:
       - containerPort: 8080
         protocol: TCP
```

```python
# Attach model to vllm server. This is an NVIDIA template
# Save as: inferenceservice.yaml
apiVersion: serving.kserve.io/v1beta1
kind: InferenceService
metadata:
  annotations:
    openshift.io/display-name: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8 # OPTIONAL CHANGE
    serving.kserve.io/deploymentMode: RawDeployment
  name: Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8          # specify model name. This value will be used to invoke the model in the payload
  labels:
    opendatahub.io/dashboard: 'true'
spec:
  predictor:
    maxReplicas: 1
    minReplicas: 1
    model:
      modelFormat:
        name: vLLM
      name: ''
      resources:
        limits:
          cpu: '2'			# this is model specific
          memory: 8Gi		# this is model specific
          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'	# this is accelerator specific
        requests:			# same comment for this block
          cpu: '1'
          memory: 4Gi
          nvidia.com/gpu: '1'
      runtime: vllm-cuda-runtime	# must match the ServingRuntime name above
      storageUri: oci://registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-fp8:1.5
    tolerations:
    - effect: NoSchedule
      key: nvidia.com/gpu
      operator: Exists
```

```bash
# make sure first to be in the project where you want to deploy the model
# oc project <project-name>

# apply both resources to run model

# Apply the ServingRuntime
oc apply -f vllm-servingruntime.yaml

```

```python
# Replace <inference-service-name> and <cluster-ingress-domain> below:
# - Run `oc get inferenceservice` to find your URL if unsure.

# Call the server using curl:
curl https://<inference-service-name>-predictor-default.<domain>/v1/chat/completions
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -d '{
    "model": "Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8",
    "stream": true,
    "stream_options": {
        "include_usage": true
    },
    "max_tokens": 1,
    "messages": [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "How can a bee fly when its wings are so small?"
        }
    ]
}'

```

See [Red Hat Openshift AI documentation](https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_openshift_ai/2025) for more details.
</details>

## Note on FP8

For convenience and performance, we have provided `fp8`-quantized model checkpoint for Qwen3, whose name ends with `-FP8`. The quantization method is fine-grained `fp8` quantization with block size of 128. You can find more details in the `quantization_config` field in `config.json`.

You can use the Qwen3-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8 model with serveral inference frameworks, including `transformers`, `sglang`, and `vllm`, as the original bfloat16 model.
However, please pay attention to the following known issues:
- `transformers`:
    - there are currently issues with the "fine-grained fp8" method in `transformers` for distributed inference. You may need to set the environment variable `CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1` if multiple devices are used in inference.


## Agentic Coding

Qwen3-Coder excels in tool calling capabilities. 

You can simply define or use any tools as following example.
```python
# Your tool implementation
def square_the_number(num: float) -> dict:
    return num ** 2

# Define Tools
tools=[
    {
        "type":"function",
        "function":{
            "name": "square_the_number",
            "description": "output the square of the number.",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": ["input_num"],
                "properties": {
                    'input_num': {
                        'type': 'number', 
                        'description': 'input_num is a number that will be squared'
                        }
                },
            }
        }
    }
]

import OpenAI
# Define LLM
client = OpenAI(
    # Use a custom endpoint compatible with OpenAI API
    base_url='http://localhost:8000/v1',  # api_base
    api_key="EMPTY"
)
 
messages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'square the number 1024'}]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    messages=messages,
    model="Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct",
    max_tokens=65536,
    tools=tools,
)

print(completion.choice[0])
```

## Best Practices

To achieve optimal performance, we recommend the following settings:

1. **Sampling Parameters**:
   - We suggest using `temperature=0.7`, `top_p=0.8`, `top_k=20`, `repetition_penalty=1.05`.

2. **Adequate Output Length**: We recommend using an output length of 65,536 tokens for most queries, which is adequate for instruct models.


### Citation

If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.

```
@misc{qwen3technicalreport,
      title={Qwen3 Technical Report}, 
      author={Qwen Team},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.09388},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09388}, 
}
```