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# Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B: $0.140/M in, $1.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen · released 2026-04-27

 $0.355 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## 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...