Qwen3.6 35B A3B specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Author: Alibaba

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 2 · released Apr 14, 2026

Provider: Alibaba
Release date: Apr 14, 2026 · Pricing lists Apr 27, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 36B total, 3B active per token; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image, Video to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.01 in / $0.09 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 11 priced API routes · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing
Hardware: Estimate: about 72 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 36 GB at 8-bit, about 18 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 2 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
77	GPQA DiamondReasoning · as “qwen3.6-35b-a3b_none”	Reasoning	84.8%	100
92	Epoch ECIReasoning · as “Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B”	Reasoning	144.0	100

Versions and release history

21 versions in this line since Sep 17, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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