Alibaba
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Release Date 2026-04-27(Knowledge cutoff 2026-04-01)262K IN · 66K OUTProprietary ModelAPI available
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 Linear Units and advanced attention mechanisms to deliver high-performance reasoning and multimodal understanding.
API cost
Market price (median)
$0.125IN$1OUT
Price range10 providers
$0.05~$0.25IN$0.7~$1.8OUTIN
OUT
9/2310/8
SourceOpenRouterLast updated
Output Speed
Fastper 2,000 tokens
82tok/s
First Output 0.6stotal: 25.0s
SourceOpenRouterLast updated
Expert Performance Evaluation
Overall performance
All overall performance AI rankingsHow strong is it across many tests combined?AA Intelligence IndexBottom 25%#89
18.2Reasoning effort: Thinking
By effortNone 15.2Thinking 18.2
Automation (agents)
All automation AI rankings9.3%Reasoning effort: Thinking95.3%62.8%
By effortNone 5.4%Thinking 9.3%
Documents and office work
All documents and office work AI rankingsCan it pull scattered facts from several long documents into one answer?Long Context ReasoningBottom 32%#81
71.7%Reasoning effort: Thinking
By effortNone 64.3%Thinking 71.7%
Writing and chat
All writing and chat AI rankingsDoes it follow tricky rules like format and length without missing any?IFBenchBottom 42%#48
64.4%Reasoning effort: Thinking
By effortNone 36.2%Thinking 64.4%
Math and science
All math and science AI rankings22.2%Reasoning effort: Thinking0.3%84.1%86.7%20.4%78.9%44.4%26.0%22.0%73.9%29.7
By effortNone 13.9%Thinking 22.2%
Image understanding
All image understanding and analysis AI rankings78.0%Self-reported by developer75.3%
Specialized fields
95.1%Reasoning effort: Thinking80.8%83.5%79.8%90.2%74.6%
See each evaluation’s detail page for its source and last updateData sources & removal requests
Related Info
Public
Alibaba🇨🇳 Hangzhou2023$267.3B~220,000 (total)