Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Released
2026-02-24
Last refreshed
2026-06-29
Status
Researched 131d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedCodingRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- Workloads that can use a 262k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
- Family
- Qwen3.5
- Released
- 2026-02-24
- Context
- 262k
- Parameters
- 35B
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
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Pricing
Output / 1M
$1.00
Input / 1M
$0.139
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter
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About
Alibaba's Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a Mixture-of-Experts model released February 24, 2026, with 35B total parameters and 3B active during inference. Part of the Qwen3.5 series with a 262K native context window (extendable to ~1M tokens). Optimized for high inference throughput (78+ tokens/second on NVIDIA hardware). Open-source under Apache 2.0.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ C2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Q/$ B3 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.139 | $1.00 | Serverless |
| Novita AI | $0.250 | $2.00 | Serverless |
Capabilities
ReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
SWE-bench VerifiedRank 65 of 81
LiveCodeBenchRank 38 of 56
Benchmark scores(9)
Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 84.5 | diamondObserved 2026-04-18 | — | Source |
| MMMU Pro | 75.1 | LLM-Stats aggregatorObserved 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| SWE-rebench | 53.7 | pass@1 (best of 5 runs)Observed 2026-05-28 | — | Source |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard v3 | 67.3 | BFCL-V4, from official model card (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 22.4 | HLE with CoT, no tools, from official model card (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.6 | LiveCodeBench v6 (pass@1)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 85.3 | From official HuggingFace model card (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| SWE-bench Verified | 69.2 | From official model card (resolved)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| τ-bench | 81.2 | TAU2-Bench, from official model card (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(3)
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Pricing
Output / 1M
$1.00
Input / 1M
$0.139
Cheapest of 2 routes · OpenRouter
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