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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

↓ runs free on your own hardware⚙ tool calling

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated...

specs & pricing
Type
text
Provider
qwen
Model ID
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Capabilities
vision, tools, reasoning
Context window
262K tokens
Self-hostable
Yes — runs on your own GPU
Input price
$0.11 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.99 / 1M tokens

Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.

What it costs to run

cloud · 1M in + 1M out

$1.10

$0.11 for a million input tokens plus $0.99 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.

your hardware

$0 / token

Served from a workstation or on-prem server you own, there is no per-token fee — the marginal cost is power.

Run it on your own hardware

Estimated GPU memory for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (35B parameters), for the weights alone — add room for the context cache.

Q4_K_M
~20.6 GBfits a 24 GB card
Q8_0
~35.3 GBfits a 48 GB card
FP16 / BF16
~65.9 GBfits a 80 GB card

Install the agent on the machine and it dials out to the gateway over a single WebSocket — no port forwarding or inbound firewall rules. Requests for this model go to your node first and fail over to the cloud only when it can't serve.

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Call Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Serve it from hardware you own, with cloud failover when your nodes are busy or offline.

no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B?
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts up to 262,144 tokens (262K) of context per request.
How much does Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B cost per million tokens?
Through Wide Area Intelligence, Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.11 per 1M input tokens and $0.99 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $1.10.
Can I run Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B on my own hardware?
Yes — Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is an open-weight model you can run on a workstation or on-prem server you own. At Q4_K_M it needs roughly 20.6 GB of GPU memory, plus room for the context cache — it fits a single 24 GB card. Wide Area Intelligence routes requests to your own nodes first and fails over to the cloud only when they can't serve.

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