Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Access Qwen3.6 35B A3B from Qwen using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Qwen3.6 35B A3B is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with 35 billion total parameters but only 3 billion active per token, making it highly efficient for inference.
Developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, it scores 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified and 51.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 — significantly outperforming dense models like Gemma 4-31B (52.0% on SWE-bench Verified). It natively handles text, image, and video with a 262K-token context window, extendable to 1M tokens.
The model supports Thinking Preservation for stable multi-turn reasoning and includes native tool-calling capabilities. Released under Apache 2.0, it was the first open-weight model in the Qwen3.6 family. A strong choice for developers who want frontier-adjacent coding performance at a fraction of the compute cost of larger models.
Context Window 262K
tokens
Max Output 66K
tokens
Input Cost $0.25
per million tokens
Output Cost $1.49
per million tokens
Input text, image, video, audio
modalities
Tool Use Yes
Release Date Apr 17, 2026
Output Speed 136
tokens / sec
Latency 1.20s
time to first token
Model Playground
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Benchmarks
How Qwen3.6 35B A3B performs on standard evaluations.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science Q&A | 84.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam Cross-domain reasoning | 20.2% |
| SciCode Scientific programming | 35.8% |
| IFBench Instruction following | 64.4% |
| LCR Long-context reasoning | 63.7% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard Agentic terminal tasks | 34.8% |
| τ²-Bench Tool use / agents | 95.3% |
Scores sourced from Artificial Analysis.
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Qwen3.7 Plus
Qwen3.7 Plus is Alibaba's multimodal agent model, released in June 2026, combining vision-language understanding with full agentic capabilities across a 1 million-token context window. Unlike the text-only Qwen3.7 Max, Plus ingests images and video alongside text, processed through early-fusion training so vision and language are jointly understood from the first layer. This enables GUI grounding — the model can interpret screenshots and issue precise on-screen actions — scoring 79.0 on ScreenSpot Pro, placing it alongside Claude Computer Use and OpenAI Operator in the GUI automation tier. Beyond vision, it adds deep reasoning, self-programming, tool invocation, and autonomous iteration: the model writes and tests code, calls external APIs, and loops until the task is done. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index it scores 53. Choose it over Qwen3.7 Max when your workflow requires image or video inputs, browser/desktop automation, or end-to-end agentic pipelines that combine seeing, reasoning, and doing.
ChatQwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max is Alibaba's flagship proprietary reasoning model, released in May 2026, built for long-horizon agentic workloads with a 1 million-token context window and a chain-of-thought reasoning architecture. It is purpose-built for complex, multi-step autonomous tasks. Alibaba demonstrated the model running for 35 hours without degradation, executing over 1,000 tool calls in a single session — making it a strong candidate for coding agents, automated pipelines, and deep document analysis. On benchmarks, it ranks 13th globally on LM Arena's text leaderboard and scores 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, making it the highest-ranked Chinese model on that index. It posted 90.2 on Arena-Hard v2 and 72.5 on SWE-Bench Verified. Qwen3.7 Max supports the Anthropic API protocol natively, so it integrates cleanly with tooling like Claude Code. It is well-suited for developers building coding assistants, research agents, or any API use case requiring extended reasoning over large contexts.
ChatQwen3.6 Flash
Qwen3.6 Flash is the speed-optimized tier of Alibaba's Qwen3.6 model family, designed for high-throughput, low-latency inference pipelines. It sits alongside Qwen3.6 Max Preview, Plus, and 35B-A3B in the product lineup, targeting use cases where fast response times matter more than peak benchmark scores. Like other Qwen3.6 models, it builds on a hybrid architecture combining linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing. It is best suited for high-volume production workloads such as classification, extraction, summarization, and lightweight agent tasks where latency and cost efficiency are the primary constraints.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Qwen3.6 35B A3B to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 |
| Output | $1.49 |
Qwen3.6 35B A3B was created by Qwen and released on Apr 17, 2026.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B supports a context window of 262K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 524 pages of text.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B can generate up to 66K tokens in a single response.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts the following input types: text, image, video, audio. It produces: text.
Yes, Qwen3.6 35B A3B supports tool use (function calling), allowing it to interact with external tools, APIs, and data sources as part of its response flow.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores 43.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming 88% of tracked models. On coding, it scores 35.2 (outperforms 79% of models).
Yes — the Qwen3.6 35B A3B API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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