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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen · · 13 days after Qwen3.6-Plus

Verified

2 of 2 published values traced to a source2 primary sources, 2 archived1 not researched yet

Why this status

Cited to the official model card and the lab's own announcement, and every value it asserts was found there. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. The primary source states the model is text-only. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: agentic: “6 via the Chat Completions API Agentic Usage Qwen-Agent Qwen Code Processing Ultra-Long Texts Best Practices Citation Qwen3.” | coding: “6-35B-A3B}: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All}, url = {https://qwen.”.

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A 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts Qwen release with 3B active parameters.

agenticcodingreasoningopen-weights

Details

ReleasedApril 15, 2026
stated in huggingface.co

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B was released on April 15, 2026.

CompanyAlibaba Qwen
FamilyQwen
Lineageafter Qwen3-30B-A3B · before Qwen3.6-27B
EraAgentic systems
TypeLanguage model · LLM
ModalitiesText → Text
CapabilitiesAgentic, Coding, Reasoning
WeightsOpen weights
LicenceApache-2.0
Context windowNot researched
Parameters35B
stated in huggingface.co

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has 35,000,000,000 parameters.

Current information, elsewhere

This record is a historical one: every figure above is traced to a dated primary source. For what is true today — live pricing, current rankings, availability — these are better maintained than anything here could be.

Sources

Record status: verified · confidence 90/100 · 2 of 2 primary

Cited to the official model card and the lab's own announcement, and every value it asserts was found there. Modalities recorded as text-to-text. The primary source states the model is text-only. Capabilities evidenced from the primary sources: agentic: “6 via the Chat Completions API Agentic Usage Qwen-Agent Qwen Code Processing Ultra-Long Texts Best Practices Citation Qwen3.” | coding: “6-35B-A3B}: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All}, url = {https://qwen.”.

Primary means published by the organisation that made the model. Verified records require at least one.

Qwen family

  1. Qwen1.5-72B February 4, 2024
  2. Qwen2-72B June 7, 2024
  3. Qwen2.5-72B September 19, 2024
  4. QwQ-32B March 6, 2025
  5. Qwen3-235B-A22B April 29, 2025
  6. Qwen3-30B-A3B April 29, 2025
  7. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct July 22, 2025
  8. Qwen3-Max-Thinking January 23, 2026
  9. Qwen3-Coder-Next February 2, 2026
  10. Qwen3.5-397B-A17B February 14, 2026
  11. Qwen3.6-Plus April 2, 2026
  12. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B April 15, 2026
  13. Qwen3.6-27B April 21, 2026
  14. Qwen3.7-Max May 16, 2026
  15. Qwen3.7-Plus May 21, 2026
  16. Qwen3.8-Max August 3, 2026
  17. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next August 3, 2026
  18. Qwen3.8-27B August 5, 2026
  19. Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B August 8, 2026
  20. Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash September 18, 2026

What changed from Qwen3-30B-A3B

Compared with the previous release in this series. A field appears only when both records state a value — where one does not, it is listed as uncomparable rather than dropped, because a gap in our research is not a finding about the model.

Not comparable: Context window (not researched on both releases)

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