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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

AlibabaReleased 16 Apr 2026Open
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139128–151Index score#90 of 229 models
3/ 8Core tests taken3 of 6 areas · plus 7 anchor tests
−31Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.4
$0.15/ $1.0Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
262KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Gemini 2.5 Pro reached this score 13 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
85%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
20%
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
23%
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#90of 219 · 139
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexoverall capability across ten evaluations#61of 207 · 18Epoch Capabilities Indexoverall capability from many benchmarks#86of 239 · 143.9

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

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

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 10 · per million tokens, in / out

DDarkbloom$0.050 / $0.70 · fp4cheapestAAkashML$0.10 / $0.90 · fp8↗DDeepInfra$0.10 / $0.95 · fp8↗RReka$0.10 / $1.0↗VVenice$0.10 / $1.0 · fp8↗PParasail$0.15 / $1.0 · fp8↗AAtlasCloud$0.19 / $1.11 · fp8↗PPhala$0.20 / $1.27↗

Run it yourself

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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

Released16 Apr 2026
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entryQwen3.6-35B-A3B (open)
Scored asQwen 3.6 35B-A3B
Artificial Analysis index18
Output speed125 tokens/s

Alibaba releasesaround this one

Qwen3.5Open
index 146
Qwen3.6-PlusClosed
index 148
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BOpen
index 139
Qwen3.6-Max-PreviewClosed
index 153
Qwen3.7-MaxClosed
index 162