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Qwen3.6 35B A3B: price, performance and context

Open Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen costs $0.15 per 1M input and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 262.1K tokens in one request (≈ 790 pages of text) and scores 18.2 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 105 of 212.

Privacy: zero data retention with 8 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.

Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.15
Output / 1M tokens
$1.00
Context window
262.1K tokens
Max. output
235.9K tokens
Performance index
18.2 points · rank 105 of 212
Coding index
41.9 points · rank 72 of 119
Agentic index
13.1 points · rank 55 of 91
Cost at your usage
$0.40 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Apr 27, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00118,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0023,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.00110,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0025,500
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.017590

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