Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.15 / $1 per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

Why use Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Understands images
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Structured (JSON) outputs

Pricing

Input	$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output	$1 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.050 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index18.2

Coding index41.9

Agentic index13.1

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B	$0.0021	$2.12	$2.12

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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