Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window, starting at $0.15 / 1M input and $0.5 / 1M output. A 35B-parameter MoE LLM in the Qwen3.6 series with 3B active parameters, designed for efficient chain-of-thought reasoning tasks.
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text·
Image✓
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.15 | $0.5 | |
Cost Calculator
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Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 84 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NP20s |  Azure | 2× AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) | 128 GB | $3.30/hr | westus2 | |
| g7e.2xlarge |  AWS | RTX PRO Server 6000 | 96 GB | $3.36/hr | us-east-1 | |
| g2-standard-48 |  GCP | 4× nvidia-l4 | 96 GB | $3.99/hr | us-east4 | |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen Audio 3 Flash Realtime | — | — | $0.413 | $4.13 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus Realtime | — | — | $0.688 | $5.50 | Available |
| Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTS | — | — | — | — | Available |
| EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Qwen3.7 Plus | 1.0M | $0.320 | $1.28 | Available | |
| Qwen3.7 Max | 1.0M | $1.25 | $3.75 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | 262K | $1.04 | $6.24 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 262K | $0.150 | $0.500 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | 262K | $0.140 | $0.450 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 Plus | 1.0M | $0.325 | $1.95 | Available | |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking | — | 262K | $0.150 | $0.500 | Current |