Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

by Alibaba

Released 14 days after Qwen3.6-Plus · All Alibaba releases

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is a multimodal model built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion activated per token, combining Gated DeltaNet and attention layers across 256 experts (8 routed plus 1 shared). It handles text, image, and video with a 262,144 token native context window, extensible toward roughly one million tokens with YaRN scaling. Reported scores include SWE-bench Verified 73.4, MMLU-Pro 85.2, Terminal-Bench 2.0 51.5, RealWorldQA 85.3, and MMBench 92.8. It runs in thinking mode by default and can retain reasoning context across turns for iterative development. The model is well suited to agentic workflows and repository-level code reasoning that combine tool calling with multimodal understanding.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
262K
Max output
262K
Input price
$0.10 /1M
Output price
$0.95 /1M
Released
  • EU residency available
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B runs on 4 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
USNo$0.10$0.95Input price
EUNo$0.34$2.05Input price
USNo$0.25$1.49Input price
EUNo$0.29$1.71Input price

Uptime and availability

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B runs on 2 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.

100%effective uptime, last 30 days
Averaged across these routes on their own, a single provider reached 100% over the same window.
Daily status through the gateway, which serves each request from whichever route is healthy.
2 monitored providers serve Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. 2 further routes for this model are not on the board yet and are not counted above. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

DeepInfra — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

GreenPT — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
Keeps nothing
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Novita — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Scaleway — France🇫🇷

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 14 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, 14-day window.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (14-day retention)
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#233 of 665 LLMs
TierEfficient
Output speed141 tok/s
First token1.12s
Intelligence Index18.2
Coding Index41.9
Reasoning & knowledge
GPQA Diamond
84%
Humanity's Last Exam
22%
Long-context reasoning
72%
Coding
SciCode
37%
Agentic & tool use
Terminal-Bench Hard
35%
τ²-Bench Telecom
95%
Math & instruction following
IFBench
64%

Get started

Call Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B through the Opper gateway with one API key. Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs.

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Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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