Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

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A Qwen model with a 256K-token context window, image input and tool calling. On the Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API since April 17, 2026.

Access details: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API

The model ID to use in API requests.

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Open weights on Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Updated Oct 1, 2026

Sources & notes

Capabilities & limits

Context window: 256K
Maximum output: 64K
Image input: Supported
Tool calling: Supported
Structured output: Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens

Input: $0.375
Output: $2.25

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Qwen's pricing page.

Full rate card 3 rates

All prices in USD.

Input tokens

$0.375 per 1M tokens

input 0 to 256K tokens per request

Output tokens, non-thinking mode

$2.25 per 1M tokens

input 0 to 256K tokens per request
non-thinking mode

Output tokens, thinking mode

$2.25 per 1M tokens

input 0 to 256K tokens per request
thinking mode (chain of thought plus answer)

USD, International deployment scope (Singapore region) on the international pricing page. Standard prices; the page notes limited-time promotions are excluded. Context-cache and explicit-cache rates are described on a separate page and were not captured; where the page flags a 50% batch discount it is noted here. Rates for other regions (China, Germany, US, Japan, Hong Kong) are not captured. Context and maximum output from the vision-model page; open-weights model also served on Model Studio.

Price history

Oct 1, 2026

Input $0.375 per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output $2.25 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters: 35B total
Active parameters: 3B
Architecture: Sparse mixture of experts (MoE) with linear attention hybrid
Input modalities: Text, image, video
Output modalities: Text

From Qwen

Official announcement ↗

How they describe it

a sparse yet remarkably capable mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion active parameters

Release & lifecycle

First available: Apr 17, 2026
legacy: As of Oct 1, 2026