Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Analysis Summary
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #34 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.150 input and $1.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.
Editorial notes
Qwen3.6 35B A3B from Qwen delivers strong reasoning, a 65+ agentic index, vision and video support, tool use, and a 262K context window at $0.15 input, making it a capable and cost-effective mid-tier option.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
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| Provider | qwen |
| Release Date | April 27, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 262,144 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $1.00 | $0.001000 |
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