Alibaba Qwen · 2026-04-27
Qwen3.6 35B A3B pricing
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $15.30 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $171 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $50.40 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | inclusionai | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | 131K | $4.86 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | prism-ml | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 262K | $5.16 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.065 | $0.26 | – | 1M | $6.04 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Qwen models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | $4 | $12 | $0.50 | 1M | $324 |
| Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.016 | 1M | $12.39 |
| Qwen3.8 Max (0902) | $2 | $6 | $0.25 | 1M | $162 |
| Qwen3.8 Flash | $0.15 | $0.47 | $0.016 | 1M | $12.39 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.039 | $1.25 | $0.0039 | 1M | $16.75 |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $2 | $6 | $0.25 | 1.05M | $162 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B: questions
How much does Qwen3.6 35B A3B cost?
$0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.90 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.025. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0006.
What is Qwen3.6 35B A3B’s context window?
262,144 tokens, with up to 235,929 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.046 in and $0.074 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Qwen3.6 35B A3B’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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