Qwen3.6 35B A3B

By Alibaba · released 2026-04-16 (6 months) · 2 effort levels

1 of 2 on the open-weights frontier at launchOff the frontier todayopen weights

Intelligence index: 18.20
Cost to run the AA index: $896
Price per 1M tokens (in / out): $0.38 / $2.25

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Today

Where Qwen3.6 35B A3B stands on the 2026-10-24 frontier

No measured level is on the frontier today.

Level	Input modalities	Intelligence	Cost	E2E	Today	Matchup
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)	Text, Image, Video	18.20	$896	46.9s	beaten by GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh)	Compare
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)	Text, Image, Video	15.20	-	5.40s	no data	Compare

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Launch day

What Qwen3.6 35B A3B did to the frontier on 2026-04-16

Reached the open-weights frontier

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)

No level beat the overall frontier, but no earlier open-weights model was as smart for less.

Reached the frontier0 of 2

Impact (hypervolume gained)0

Rank, past year's releases—

Smartest level18.20

Cheapest level$896

1 of 2 effort levels plotted. The remaining levels lack intelligence or benchmark cost data.

Reached the frontierMissed itDisplaced from the old frontierFrontier the day beforeFrontier after the releaseRegion gained (impact)

Grey: the frontier the day before. Black: after this release. Shaded: the area it newly dominates, which is the impact number.

Missed the frontier

Level	Intelligence	Cost	Beaten by	Intel gap	Cost ratio
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)	18.20	$896	GPT-5.4 nano (Xhigh)	−2.5	2.71×

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