Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Alibaba: sparse MoE open-weight model with Gated DeltaNet hybrid, Thinking Preservation, native vision, and agentic coding focus.
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Qwen3.6 35B A3B is a sparse MoE model (35B total, 3B activated) with a built-in vision encoder. It is the first open-weight release in the Qwen3.6 series. The model card explicitly positions it around two Qwen3.6-specific upgrades: agentic coding (frontend workflows and repository-level reasoning) and Thinking Preservation, a new option to retain reasoning context from historical messages across multi-turn sessions.
| Trait | Detail |
|---|---|
| Thinking Preservation | New in Qwen3.6: optionally retains reasoning traces from prior messages, reducing re-derivation overhead in iterative coding sessions |
| MoE configuration | 256 experts per block; 8 routed + 1 shared expert activated per token |
| Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) | Trained with multi-step MTP, documented in the model card |
| Native multimodal | Includes a vision encoder; supports image, video, and text inputs in a single unified model |
| Context window | 262,144 tokens natively, extensible to 1,010,000 tokens |
| API name | Available as qwen3.6-flash on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio |
| License | Apache 2.0 open-weight |
Independent evaluations · Artificial Analysis
Evaluate specifications, pricing, and independent benchmark indices
| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | April 16, 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 | $0.38 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $2.25 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | textimagevideo | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 24.6 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | 28.1 | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | 19.2 | 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.
