Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Apr 16, 2026 Specialist New
Intelligence #123 / 551
54.2 Our Score
Speed #39 / 257
176.9 tokens / sec
Input #340 / 552
$0.375 per 1M tokens
Output #388 / 552
$2.25 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) sits in the Specialist tier on our leaderboard, ranked #123 of 551 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.375 input and $2.25 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) from Alibaba shows a strong agentic index and good GPQA score at a moderate price, but the coding index is limited and provider accessibility applies a penalty.

Assessed May 5, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence5.6Technical4.6Value6.5Content5
Intelligence 5.6/10
Technical 4.6/10
Content 5/10
Value 6.5/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

31.5 Intelligence Index
17.6 Coding Index
55.4 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 81.7% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 12.5% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 1.3% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 25.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 85.1% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 36.2% Instruction following
LCR 56.7% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderAlibaba
Release Date April 16, 2026
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.38 $0.000375
Output $2.25 $0.002250

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