Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

apache-2.035B / 3B

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.

Context
262K
Max output
236K
Input price
$0.1/1M tokens
Output price
$0.9/1M tokens

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Reasoning
Tool Calling
Output Control
Structured Output
JSON Mode
Infrastructure
Streaming
Fine-tuning

Details

Model IDqwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Provider OpenRouter
Creator Qwen
Familyqwen3.6
Licenseapache-2.0
Status—
Typechat
Input modalitiestext, image, video
Output modalitiestext
Open weightYes
Parameters35B / 3B
Architecture—
Context window262K tokens
Max input—
Max output236K tokens
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff—
Release date
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input
$0.1
Output
$0.9
Cache write
—
Cache read
$0.03
Batch in
—
Batch out
—

Family Comparison: qwen3.6

ModelContextMax outPricing
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus (free)1M66K—
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free)1M32K—
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K236K$0.1$0.9
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash1M66K$0.19$1.13
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B262K82K$0.32$3.2
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus1M66K$0.33$1.95
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K66K$1.03$6.16

API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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.

Changes · 14 entries
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdateca7a400Nov 2, 2026, 03:02 AM
max_output_tokens262144→235929
pricinginput$0.15→$0.1output$1→$0.9cached input$0.05→$0.025
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdateb2f45bfOct 29, 2026, 03:29 AM
pricingoutput$0.95→$0.9cached input$0.05→$0.025
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdate42a9895Oct 20, 2026, 06:39 AM
pricinginput$0.15→$0.1output$1→$0.95
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdateb92059eOct 15, 2026, 06:37 AM
max_output_tokens65536→235929
pricinginput$0.1→$0.15output$0.95→$1cached input$0.1→$0.05
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdatedcc4383Oct 11, 2026, 06:38 AM
max_output_tokens235929→65536
pricinginput$0.15→$0.1output$1→$0.95cached input$0.05→$0.1
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdateaf38e5cSep 21, 2026, 06:49 AM
pricinginput$0.1→$0.15output$0.9→$1
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdatee3d7dedAug 31, 2026, 04:13 AM
max_output_tokens262144→235929
pricinginput$0.15→$0.1output$1→$0.9
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdate3cddff5Aug 13, 2026, 02:54 AM
pricinginput$0.14→$0.15
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdatec4a5601Jun 20, 2026, 03:43 PM
pricinginput$0.15→$0.14
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdateab879c8Jun 18, 2026, 08:32 AM
max_output_tokens262140→262144
pricinginput$0.14→$0.15
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdatebbc8212May 29, 2026, 12:04 AM
pricinginput$0.15→$0.14
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdate9e091d8May 23, 2026, 05:20 PM
max_output_tokens262144→262140
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bupdate241c61aMay 7, 2026, 04:28 AM
max_output_tokens65536→262144
capabilitiestool callyes
pricinginput$0.161→$0.15output$0.965→$1cached input$0.161→$0.05
tools["function_calling"]
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3bcreatebc0fb7dMay 2, 2026, 02:14 AM