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Qwen3.6 35B-A3B
alibaba·alibaba/qwen3.6-35b-a3b·BETA·Open weights·qwen series
Open multimodal Qwen MoE for local agents that need vision, audio, and code
At a glance
Official price$0.248 / $1.49 per 1M
Cache read — · Alibaba
Lowest paid$0.07 / $0.42
EmpirioLabs AI Gateway · 71.4× spread
2 more $0 channels
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 16,384–262,144; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageVideoAudio
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Released / updated2026-04-17 / 2026-04-17
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier Reasoning
Intelligence32.1
Value204
Coding41.9
Agentic21.6
Output speed118 tok/s
TTFT2.07 s
Cost per task$0.2944
Value formulaIQ 32.1 ÷ min blended $0.158 = 204
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 24.6 · 138 tok/s
ReasoningIQ 32.1 · 118 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 25 providers23 with public prices · 1 free · 1 subscription-covered
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umans AI Coding Plan umans-qwen3.6-35b-a3b | Gateway | Subscription | $0 | $0 | 262,144 | 262,144 | ||
| QVAC | Gateway | Free | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | ||
| EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-6-35b-a3b | Gateway | $0.07 | $0.42 | $0.035 | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 16,384 | |
| SaladCloud AI Gateway | Gateway | $0.09 | $0.60 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| AKI.IO qwen3.6-35b | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.50 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Zenifra | Gateway | $0.19 | $0.48 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
| Cortecs | Gateway | $0.167 | $0.557 | — | — | 262,000 ⚠ | 262,000 | |
| NanoGPT qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Gateway | $0.112 | $0.80 | $0.056 | — | 262,144 | 16,384 | |
| Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Cloud | $0.10 | $0.95 | — | — | 262,144 | 81,920 | |
| Venice AI qwen3-6-35b-a3b | Gateway | $0.10 | $1.00 | — | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 65,536 | |
| AlibabaOfficial | First-party | $0.248 | $1.49 | — | — | 262,144 | 65,536 | |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1EmpirioLabs AI$30.80
2SaladCloud AI Gateway$48.00
3AKI.IO$55.00
4NanoGPT$55.68
5Cortecs$61.25
6Zenifra$62.00
18Alibaba · Official$123.85
2 more channels offer $0 (Umans AI Coding Plan, QVAC); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
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Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-Bench Verified | — | 73.4 | resolved | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
Reasoning control
Toggle (on / off)effort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = noneeffort = maxbudget_tokenseffort = minimaleffort = xhigh
7 / 25 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended