Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Qwen released 2026-04-27
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.
+19.7 on the capability index and 70% cheaper ($0.105/M against $0.355/M). What you lose:
- no image, video input
Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.140/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.00/M |
| Cached input | $0.050/M |
Independent scores
| Intelligence | 32.1 |
|---|---|
| Coding | 41.9 |
| Agentic | 21.6 |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...