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Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B is made by Qwen (Alibaba). We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. It's cheap to use. Its makers have published it, so you can run it on your own servers.

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Writing & creativity
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Research & analysis
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Coding
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Price
Cheap$0.15 / $1
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M
$0.36
MemoryContext
262K
Longest answerMax output
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Test resultsResults
9 (9 independent9 indep.)
Out sinceReleased
27 Apr 2026
Made byVendor
Qwen (Alibaba)
UnderstandsInputs
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Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Thinking levels

Reasoning settings

You can't choose how long this one thinks.

No adjustable reasoning setting listed.

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Links

Using it through OpenRouter

On OpenRouter

OpenRouter is a service that gives access to many AI models in one place. This model is listed there as qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b.

Route it as qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b at $0.15 in / $1 out per 1M tokens, 262K context. Listed since 27 Apr 2026.

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Run it yourself

Self-hosting

On your own servers,Licence, sizeunder your own control.and hardware.

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LicenceLicence
Apache-2.0
OK for business useCommercial use
Yes
SizeParams (total / active)
35B / 3B
Can be trained furtherBase model
No

Hardware you'd need

Hardware tier & memory

Runs on a powerful laptop or workstation.

≤ 24 GB at 4-bit (one consumer GPU / 32 GB Mac). Weights ≈ 37 GB at 8-bit, 19 GB at 4-bit (+10–30% for KV cache). MoE: 3B active per token.

Languages: Languages: Not listed in 3.6 card; Qwen3.5 card: 201 languages and dialects.

Training it further: Fine-tuning: No recipe in card. Same-architecture base Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Base (Apache 2.0) is the best Qwen MoE starting point for continued pretraining/SFT.

Quantisations: bf16, fp8 (Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8). Engines: SGLang, vLLM, KTransformers, Transformers.

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Every test result

Every result

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All results for this model
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AA-LCR71.7%DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b
AA-Omniscience Index-22.2DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b; AA-Omniscience Index (-100..100)
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index18.2DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b
Artificial Analysis output speed125 tok/sDefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b; median output tokens/sec across AA-tracked API providers (not a self-hosted measurement)
GPQA Diamond84.1%DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b
Humanity's Last Exam22.2%DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b
SciCode36.6%DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b
SWE-rebench24.7%DefaultQwen3.6-35B-A3BIndependent testIndependentSWE-rebench (Nebius) ↗1 Oct 2026SWE-rebench standard scaffoldtime window 2026-05-15..2026-07-01 (111 problems, 65 repos); ±0.79; pass@5 43.2%; $0.27/problem
Terminal-Bench 2.144.9%DefaultQwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗1 Oct 2026—AA slug qwen3-6-35b-a3b