Skip to content
Not available in this workspace
OpenRouterOpenRouter
© 2026 OpenRouter, Inc

Product

  • Chat
  • Rankings
  • Benchmarks
  • Apps
  • Discover
  • Models
  • Collections
  • Providers
  • Pricing
  • Enterprise
  • Labs

Company

  • About
  • Blog
  • Careers
    Hiring
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Service
  • Support
  • Works With OR
  • Data

Developer

  • Documentation
  • API Reference
  • Developer Platform
  • Status

Connect

  • Discord
  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • YouTube
Favicon for qwen

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Model weights
Compare

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

$0.08 / $0.75per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Apr 27, 2026

Compare
ProvidersPricingPerformanceUptimeBenchmarksAppsActivityFAQ

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 Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

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.

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).

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.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

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.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

OpenRouter makes Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b. Requests can be routed across 10 providers, including Darkbloom, Venice, DeepInfra, AkashML, Parasail, AtlasCloud, io.net, Phala and 2 more, with automatic failover when an endpoint is unavailable.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts text, images and video and returns text. It has a 262,144-token context window and a maximum output of 8,192 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.08/M input tokens and $0.75/M output tokens. It was released on April 27, 2026.

More models from Qwen

  • Qwen3.8 27B
  • Qwen3 Reranker 8B
  • Qwen3 ASR 1.7B

Frequently asked questions

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.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.08/M input tokens and $0.75/M output tokens.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 8,192 completion tokens.

Yes. Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

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

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is served by 10 providers on OpenRouter: Darkbloom, Venice, DeepInfra, AkashML, Parasail, AtlasCloud, io.net, Phala 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.

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

$0.098$0.95--0.79s118 tps
99.67%
$0.10$0.95--0.51s32 tps
98.18%
$0.14$1.00$0.050.70s83 tps
99.73%
$0.15$1.00$0.050.62s45 tps
99.40%
$0.186$1.114$0.1860.83s97 tps
99.79%
$0.19$1.19$0.092.65s15 tps
99.76%
$0.20$1.27--1.35s100 tps
99.68%
$0.20$1.60--1.74s42 tps
98.28%
$0.25$1.25$0.250.47s115 tps
99.91%
$0.08$0.75--4.88s28 tps
57.97%

Throughput

118tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.47s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto Benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-Bench
CoreWeave
82.8%--
SiliconFlow
82.5%--
AtlasCloud
84.7%77.8%
Parasail
84.3%75.0%
AkashML
79.9%76.0%
+6 more providers
Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.90%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.90%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.88%
Without Routing
97.31%

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 customization options.

1.
Favicon for https://nousresearch.com
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.
40.9Btokens
2.
Favicon for https://docs.all-hands.dev/
OpenHands
AI coding agent that can run commands, browse the web, call APIs
12.5Btokens
3.
Favicon for https://sekai.chat/
Sekai
new
7.66Btokens
4.
Favicon for https://bitsec.ai/
Bitsec
new
5.67Btokens
5.
Favicon for https://pi.dev/
pi
There are many coding agents, but this one is yours.
3.52Btokens