How much does Qwen3.6 35B A3B cost?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.025/M input tokens and $0.229/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.022/M tokens.

What is the context length of Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.

Does Qwen3.6 35B A3B support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes. Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling on 8 of the 10 providers serving it, and requests that send tools are routed to those providers. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

What inputs and outputs does Qwen3.6 35B A3B support?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.

Which providers serve Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is served by 10 providers on OpenRouter: Prime Intellect, Darkbloom, CoreWeave, AkashML, Parasail, DeepInfra, DekaLLM, Venice and 2 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

When was Qwen3.6 35B A3B released?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B was released on April 27, 2026.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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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 DeltaNet linear attention with standard gated attention layers, enabling efficient inference at a fraction of the compute cost. The model supports a 262K token native context window (extensible to 1M via YaRN) and accepts text, image, and video inputs. It includes integrated thinking mode with reasoning traces preserved across multi-turn conversations, function calling, and structured output. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Modalities

In / out price

$0.025 / $0.229per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).

Latency / throughput


$0.10	$0.95	$0.10	0.53s	122 tok/s	99.45%
$0.10	$0.89	$0.035	0.46s	99 tok/s	99.68%
$0.10	$0.90	$0.025	0.57s	82 tok/s	100.00%
$0.10	$0.90	$0.05	0.98s	70 tok/s	99.23%
$0.10	$1.00	$0.05	1.48s	115 tok/s	96.95%
$0.25	$1.25	$0.25	1.12s	123 tok/s	64.30%
$0.10	$1.00	--	0.83s	80 tok/s	99.65%
$0.025	$0.229	$0.022	0.46s	52 tok/s	100.00%
$0.05	$0.70	$0.025	0.58s	72 tok/s	99.93%
$0.24	$1.80	$0.15	2.38s	19 tok/s	91.02%

Input $0.10Output $0.95
122 tok/s99.45% uptime
Input $0.10Output $0.89
99 tok/s99.68% uptime
Input $0.10Output $0.90
82 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.10Output $0.90
70 tok/s99.23% uptime
Input $0.10Output $1.00
115 tok/s96.95% uptime
Input $0.25Output $1.25
123 tok/s64.30% uptime
Input $0.10Output $1.00
80 tok/s99.65% uptime
Input $0.025Output $0.229
52 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.05Output $0.70
72 tok/s99.93% uptime
Input $0.24Output $1.80
19 tok/s91.02% uptime

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Weighted average

Input

$0.06357/M tokens

Output

$0.8609/M tokens

Qwen3.6 35B A3B — Price history

Price history

No effective price data for this selection

$0.0386	$0.554	19.5%	7.8%
$0.0438	$0.699	24.5%	1.3%
$0.0569	$1.000	86.3%	14.8%
$0.0584	$0.890	55.2%	38.3%
$0.0685	$0.898	62.9%	25.1%
$0.0722	$0.889	42.3%	7.6%
$0.0996	$1.000	19.0%	0.1%
$0.1000	$0.949	61.6%	3.8%
$0.2499	$1.250	0.0%	1.3%
$0.2398	$1.797	0.0%	0.0%

Effective in $0.0386Effective out $0.554
Token share
7.8%
Effective in $0.0438Effective out $0.699
Token share
1.3%
Effective in $0.0569Effective out $1.000
Token share
14.8%
Effective in $0.0584Effective out $0.890
Token share
38.3%
Effective in $0.0685Effective out $0.898
Token share
25.1%
Effective in $0.0722Effective out $0.889
Token share
7.6%
Effective in $0.0996Effective out $1.000
Token share
0.1%
Effective in $0.1000Effective out $0.949
Token share
3.8%
Effective in $0.2499Effective out $1.250
Token share
1.3%
Effective in $0.2398Effective out $1.797
Token share
0.0%

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Throughput

123tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.46s

P50, best provider

Latency / throughput

AutoExacto benchmarks

GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchSiliconFlow84.7%--CoreWeave82.2%--AtlasCloud85.4%78.0%auto-routing84.6%75.7%AkashML84.5%74.4%

+7 more providers

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.88%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours

Availability 99.88%

3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability

99.96%

Without Routing

98.52%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Artificial Analysis)
Source	Benchmark	Score
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) Coding Index	41.9
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) Agentic Index	13.1
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) GPQA Diamond	84.1%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) HLE	22.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) IFBench	64.4%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom	95.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) AA-LCR	71.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) τ-Bench Banking	9.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) GDPval-AA	19.9%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) CritPt	0.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) SciCode	36.6%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard	34.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench 4.0	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) Terminal-Bench 2.1	44.9%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) Coding Index	28.1
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) GPQA Diamond	81.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) HLE	13.9%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) IFBench	36.2%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) τ²-Bench Telecom	85.1%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR	64.3%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) τ-Bench Banking	5.4%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) GDPval-AA	17.7%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) CritPt	0.0%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench Hard	25.8%
Artificial Analysis	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench 2.1	41.6%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Portkey AI

Control panel for AI apps

103Btokens

Sekai Agent

new

55.4Btokens

marl commit0 rollouts

new

8.55Btokens

Hermes Agent

Hermes Agent is an open-source, self-improving AI agent by Nous Research that runs persistently with memory across sessions, and builds reusable skills from experience. It comes with 40+ built-in tools, including web search, browser automation, and vision, plus scheduled automations and subagents.

5.32Btokens

FCG Backtest

new

4.58Btokens

Rest of OpenRouter

7.65B

Top 5 Apps

6.78B

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