Qwen3.6 35B A3B pricing & benchmarks
Released Apr 27, 2026 · served by 8 providers · ranked #51 by intelligence in our index
What Qwen3.6 35B A3B is
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...
- Model ID:
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b - Modality: text+image+video->text
- Tool calling: supported · Structured output: supported
- Weights:
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3Bon Hugging Face
Providers and prices for Qwen3.6 35B A3B
The same model costs different amounts depending on who serves it. Prices are per 1M tokens, cheapest first. Uptime and throughput are OpenRouter's rolling measurements, not vendor claims.
| Provider | Input | Output | Context | Quant | Uptime 24h | Throughput |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venicecheapest | $0.100 | $1.00 | 256K | fp8 | 98.1% | — |
| AkashML | $0.140 | $1.00 | 262K | fp8 | 99.8% | — |
| Parasail | $0.150 | $1.00 | 262K | fp8 | 98.8% | — |
| AtlasCloud | $0.186 | $1.11 | 262K | fp8 | 99.5% | — |
| CoreWeave | $0.250 | $1.25 | 262K | fp8 | 99.5% | — |
| Phala | $0.200 | $1.27 | 262K | — | 98.3% | — |
| SiliconFlow | $0.200 | $1.60 | 262K | fp8 | 98.9% | — |
| Io Net | $0.285 | $2.40 | 262K | fp8 | 99.9% | — |
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FAQ
How much does the Qwen3.6 35B A3B API cost?
$0.100 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical workload of 1M input + 300K output tokens costs about $0.40.
Is Qwen3.6 35B A3B free?
No. It is a paid model starting at $0.100 per 1M input tokens, though some providers offer trial credits.
Which provider is cheapest for Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Venice at $0.100 input / $1.00 output per 1M tokens (fp8 quantization).
Can I self-host Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Yes — weights are published as Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Hugging Face, so you can run it on your own hardware.