Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Tool-heavy coding at 3B-active cost

Chat
Multi-Modal
Thinking
JSON Mode
Tool Calling

Pricing

Run instantly. Pay only for what you use.

Input
$0.05/ M
Output
$0.25/ M
Cache read
$0.025/ M

About Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B is Alibaba's sparse open-weight MoE under Apache 2.0: 35B total parameters with just 3B active per token, a 262K-token context window, and native multimodal input — text, images, and video in one model.

It is built for agents that run all day: hybrid Gated DeltaNet attention keeps long contexts cheap, and thinking preservation carries reasoning traces across turns, so multi-step loops keep earlier decisions instead of re-deriving them.

The result is tool-heavy coding at fleet economics: 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified, 80.4 on LiveCodeBench v6, and 81.7 on MMMU with thinking enabled — near-flagship results from 3B-active compute, with strict function calling and JSON output.

3Bactive of 35B total

A 256-expert MoE routes 8 experts per token — near-dense quality at small-model compute.

262Ktoken context window

Holds long agent sessions and full document sets in a single context.

3input modalities

Text, images, and video are read natively — no separate vision model to route to.

Key capabilities

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B is strongest where agents call tools constantly and the context includes more than text — coding loops, visual tickets, and multilingual pipelines at fleet scale.

Agentic coding

73.4% on SWE-bench Verified and 51.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 with thinking enabled — plans, edits, and verifies real repositories.

Native multimodal input

81.7 on MMMU and 75.3 on MMMU-Pro — screenshots, diagrams, and video frames are first-class inputs, not an add-on.

Thinking preservation

Reasoning traces persist across conversation turns, so multi-step agent loops keep earlier decisions without re-deriving them.

Competition-grade math

92.7 on AIME 2026 and 83.6 on HMMT with thinking enabled — reasoning depth on demand, off when speed matters.

Where this model fits

Best for
  • High-volume coding agents and CI automation

    Resolves 73.4% of SWE-bench Verified issues with thinking enabled — production coding-agent capability at 3B-active cost.

  • Multimodal tickets and screen understanding

    Screenshots, UI recordings, and diagrams are native inputs — 81.7 on MMMU — so visual bug reports stay in one model.

  • Tool-heavy loops where per-token cost dominates

    3B active parameters and cache-read discounts keep always-on agents and batch pipelines affordable at scale.

  • Long agent sessions

    The 262K window plus thinking preservation holds context and reasoning across hundreds of tool calls.

Avoid for
  • The hardest cross-app tool orchestration

    Scores 37% on MCPMark multi-app orchestration. For marathon runs across many tools, use Kimi K2.6.

  • Tight output-token budgets with thinking on

    Thinking mode is verbose — roughly 4× the median output tokens in Artificial Analysis testing. Disable thinking or cap its budget for cost-sensitive replies.

  • Audio input or speech understanding

    Inputs are text, image, and video only. Transcribe audio upstream before sending it to the model.

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Performance and
benchmarks

Entrim performance for Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B under production load in the past few days.

Throughput (tokens / sec)

avg. 210tokens/s

Time to first token (TTFT)

avg. 640ms

Public model benchmarks

73.4%SWE-bench Verified

Resolves real GitHub issues end-to-end in agentic coding runs.

80.4LiveCodeBench v6

Competitive coding problems unseen at training time.

81.7MMMU

University-level reasoning over images, charts, and diagrams.

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Code examples

curl -X POST "https://api.entrim.ai/v1/chat/completions" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ENTRIM_API_KEY" \  -d '{    "model": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",    "messages": [      {        "role": "user",        "content": "Why do they call it a building if it is already built?"      }    ]  }'

SDKs & docs

Use familiar SDK patterns with quickstart examples for common production setups.

OpenAI-compatible

Keep the request format your team already knows.

No cold starts

Production requests are served without model spin-up delays.

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