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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

AlibabaReleased 24 Feb 2026Open
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137125–148Index score#99 of 229 models
1/ 8Core tests taken1 of 6 areas · plus 4 anchor tests
−33Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.3-CodexReplaced by Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$0.16/ $1.3Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
262KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Gemini 2.5 Pro reached this score 11 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
83%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingno evidence yet
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

The Model Indexindependent tests, our method#99of 219 · 137
LMArena · Mathsmaths questions in chat#142of 373 · 1398LMArena · Textoverall chat quality, judged by people#149of 388 · 1394Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#93of 239 · 142.5LMArena · Codingcoding questions in chat#153of 383 · 1435LMArena · Creative writingcreative writing#167of 386 · 1342LMArena · WebDevbuilding web apps and front ends#110of 123 · 1253

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Qwen3.6-35B-A3B; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

From the lab

Qwen Chatapp · subscription↗Alibaba Cloud Model StudioAPI↗

API providers 7 · per million tokens, in / out

DDarkbloom$0.080 / $0.75 · fp4cheapestDDeepInfra$0.14 / $1.0 · fp8↗PParasail$0.15 / $1.0 · fp8↗AAlibaba$0.16 / $1.3↗VVenice$0.31 / $1.25↗AAtlasCloud$0.23 / $1.8 · fp8↗SSiliconFlow$0.24 / $1.8 · fp8↗

Run it yourself

🤗Official weightsQwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B↗

Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

Facts and sources

Released24 Feb 2026
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entry–
Scored asQwen3.5-35B-A3B
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

Alibaba releasesaround this one

QwenClosed
Tongyi QianwenClosed