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Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking

Added Apr 19, 2026Open weights

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is a native vision-language MoE model with hybrid attention. Compared to Qwen3.5 35B A3B, Alibaba reports stronger agentic coding, mathematical and code reasoning, and better spatial understanding (including object localization and detection).

Reasoning
Tools
Vision
Video input

Input: Text, Images, Video
Output: Text
Discovery tier: Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens

Input: $0.11
Output: $0.80

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window: 1M
Max output: 16.4K

Side by side

Qwen3.6 35B A3B Thinking compared

Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.

Limits
	Qwen3.6 35B A3B ThinkingQwenThis model	Qwen 3.8 27B NovelistQwenRemove
Provider	Qwen	Qwen
Discovery tier	Open weights	Open weights
Added	Apr 19, 2026	Oct 5, 2026
Context window	1.05MBest	262.14K
Max output	16.38K	32.77KBest
Average output	—	745 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.11	$0.10Best
Output	$0.80	$0.60Best
Cache read	—	$0.05
Performance
Throughput	—	34.4 tok/s
Time to first token	—	3.5 s
Request success (24h)	100.0%Best	98.4%
Capabilities
Reasoning	Yes	Yes
Tools	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	Yes
Video input	Yes	No
Reasoning effort	—	—

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

There are no public benchmark results for these models yet.

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Prompt cache hits: 66.6%
Request success (24h): 100.0%; Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 100.0%

Healthy (98% or more)
Degraded (90–98%)
Down (under 90%)
No requests

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart

curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b:thinking",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b:thinking",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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