Qwen3.5 35B A3B is Qwen's reasoning vision-language model, built on Gated Delta Networks and Mixture-of-Experts, with toggleable thinking and tool use.
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Qwen3.5 35B A3B is described by the Qwen team as a reasoning vision-language model that supports tool use. It combines multimodal understanding with agentic capability in one model, built on an architecture that favors efficiency over raw size.
| Trait | Detail |
|---|---|
| Defining purpose | A reasoning vision-language model that supports tool use, combining multimodal understanding with agentic capability in one model. |
| Gated Delta plus MoE | Built on a hybrid architecture combining Gated Delta Networks with a sparse Mixture-of-Experts design, aimed at high-throughput inference with low latency. |
| Early fusion training | Trained with early fusion on multimodal tokens, a unified approach to vision-language learning rather than attaching a separate vision encoder to a text only model. |
| Toggleable thinking mode | Supports both a thinking mode for step by step reasoning and a non-thinking mode for direct responses, switchable depending on the task. |
Qwen states it scaled reinforcement learning across environments involving large numbers of agents, using progressively complex task distributions aimed at robust real-world adaptability rather than a single fixed training scenario.
Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis
Evaluate specifications, pricing, and independent benchmark indices
| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | February 24, 2026 | July 24, 2026 | June 9, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | - | May 2026 | - |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 262K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.25 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $2 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | textimagevideo | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 24.3 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | 37.0 | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | 11.8 | 59.2 Best Agentic Index | 56.6 |
Graduate-level reasoning and expert Q&A evaluation.
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
Independent evaluation data provided by Artificial Analysis. To view the latest benchmarks and full details, visit their official site.
