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Alibaba · Qwen3.6

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Open weightsGenerally availableApache-2.0

Small open MoE (about 35B total, 3B active) for fast local inference. It has no Qwen3.8 successor at this size yet.

AA Intelligence
18#70 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.375/ $2.25
Output speed
128tok/s
Context window
262K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#70 of 142
    18independentv4.3.2, reasoningArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#68 of 88
    0%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#64 of 103
    44.9%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#78 of 94
    36.6%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

Agents and tool use

  • τ²-Bench#9 of 88
    95.3%independenttelecom, reasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

  • GDPval-AA#60 of 103
    879independentGDPval-AA v2.1, reasoningArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#63 of 142
    84.1%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#67 of 147
    22.2%independentreasoning, no tools, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#78 of 139
    0.3%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#69 of 139
    71.7%independentreasoning, AA-LCRArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#36 of 72
    75%independentreasoning, AA-runArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
IFBench (AA) · reasoning64.4%independentArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗
Terminal-Bench Hard (AA) · reasoning34.8%independentArtificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

Specs

Released
April 16, 2026
Parameters
36B total, 3B active
Size class
10 to 40B
Input
text, image, video
Output
text
Context
262K tokens
Max output
Not published
Blended 70/30
$0.937 / 1M
First token
2.09s
  • Price: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio pricing (Singapore / International) ↗ Hosted qwen3.6-35b-a3b on Model Studio (International), 0-256K tier.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) ↗

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