Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

qwen · Released Feb 25, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #10 / 565
82.0 Our Score
Speed #65 / 266
141.3 tokens / sec
Input #240 / 571
$0.140 per 1M tokens
Output #317 / 571
$1.00 per 1M tokens
Context #106 / 571
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B comes from Qwen. It launched in February 2026, making it a current-generation release. We place it in the Professional tier, where it sits at #10 of 565 models overall. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #107 of 374, putting it in the upper half for overall intelligence.

On coding it ranks #162 of 311, a reasonable fit for everyday development support. For agentic automation it sits at #92 of 286, handling the multi-step, tool-using tasks that power AI agents. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 81% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B combines tool use, function calling, vision input, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.

At $0.140 input and $1.00 output per 1M tokens, Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a dependable pick for businesses that need strong, well-rounded performance without paying frontier prices.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B offers vision, video, and tool use with a 262K context at $0.14/1M input; coding capability is limited but agentic and reasoning scores are respectable for the price.

Assessed May 31, 2026

Rankings consider pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and real-world applicability and are refreshed as new models launch. Feedback?

Performance Profile

Intelligence4.6Technical3.8Value8Content5.7
Intelligence 4.6/10
Technical 3.8/10
Content 5.7/10
Value 8/10

How Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B compares

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks #107 of 374 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #162 of 311 for coding, #92 of 286 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 81% of the models we list. At $0.14 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 58% of comparable models.

About Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

The Qwen3.5 Series 35B-A3B is a native vision-language model designed with a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms and a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Its overall..

35B Parameters

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

30.7 Intelligence Index
16.8 Coding Index
48.4 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 81.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 12.8% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 29.3% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 10.6% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 86.3% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 44.5% Instruction following
LCR 55.3% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b
Providerqwen
Release Date February 25, 2026
Context Length262,144 tokens
Max Completion262,144 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.14 $0.000140
Output $1.00 $0.001000

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics, refreshed every 30 minutes.

98.3%
Avg Uptime
313ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
141 tok/s
Best Throughput
10/10
Active Endpoints
Available via: Ambient, DeepInfra, Parasail, AkashML, Alibaba, AtlasCloud, SiliconFlow, WandB +2 more

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Frequently asked questions about Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

How much does Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cost?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).

Is Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks #162 of 311 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B do?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is developed by Qwen and was released on February 25, 2026.