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Qwen3.6 35B A3BOPEN
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.
Prices update automatically — checked daily against provider list prices.
- $0.3 per 1M tokens, assuming 3 input for 1 output the convention used by Artificial Analysis
- cheaper than 55% of the 191 open-weight models tracked here
- 17 of 51 Alibaba models tracked here, from cheapest
Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3.6 35B A3B, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: Reasoning.
For the same budget, Qwen3.6 35B A3B delivers 6 times more capability. Open weights also mean you can self-host it and pay nothing per token.
Models at this level cost $0.72 per 1M tokens (median of 17) — this one costs $0.3.
Cheaper and better on this index: GLM 5.3 Flash · GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and 7 more
About this model
Qwen3.6 35B A3B is an open-weight AI model by Alibaba. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked daily, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Qwen3.6 35B A3B is an AI language model from Alibaba. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 32.1 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Qwen3.6 35B A3B free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Qwen3.6 35B A3B and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.9 per million output tokens.
What is Qwen3.6 35B A3B good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 84.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 22.2%, Long Context Reasoning 66.7%, SciCode 35.8%, IFBench 64.4%, τ²-Bench 95.3%, τ-Bench Banking 9.3%, Terminal-Bench 44.9%, Terminal-Bench Hard 34.8%. It is particularly used for code generation.
How fast is Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
It generates about 144.4 tokens per second, with a median 1.03s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Can I self-host Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Yes. Qwen3.6 35B A3B has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.