Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Last refreshed 2026-05-22. Next refresh: weekly.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Decision context: RAG task fit, 2 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-04-19.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 262k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Cheapest output
$1.00
OpenRouter per 1M tokens
Provider routes
2
Tracked API hosts
Quality / dollar
Unknown
No task benchmark coverage yet
Freshness
2026-04-19
Researched 44d ago
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.139 | $1.00 | Serverless |
| Novita AI | $0.250 | $2.00 | Serverless |
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
About
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a Mixture-of-Experts model released February 24, 2026, with 35B total parameters and 3B active during inference. Part of the Qwen3.5 series with a 262K native context window (extendable to ~1M tokens). Optimized for high inference throughput (78+ tokens/second on NVIDIA hardware). Open-source under Apache 2.0.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a model in the Qwen3.5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 262k-token context window, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through OpenRouter and Novita AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.139 input and $1 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 84.5 and SWE-rebench 53.7.
Capabilities
Benchmark Scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 84.5 | diamond | https://pricepertoken.com/leaderboards/benchmark/gpqa |
| SWE-rebench | 53.7 | pass@1 (best of 5 runs) | https://swe-rebench.com/leaderboard |
