What is the rate limit for qwen3.6-35b-a3b?

The current model record does not publish a numeric rate limit for qwen3.6-35b-a3b. Confirm the quota for your plan in the console, then run a short load test at your expected concurrency to establish the effective ceiling before production.

Does qwen3.6-35b-a3b have a free tier?

qwen3.6-35b-a3b is billed per use and the record publishes no free-tier allowance. The current published rates are input $0.2480 per 1M tokens and output $1.4850 per 1M tokens. Trial credit or promotional quota is tied to your account rather than to the model, so check the console before planning around a free tier.

How are reasoning tokens billed on qwen3.6-35b-a3b?

Reasoning tokens are billed as output on qwen3.6-35b-a3b, at $1.485 per 1,000,000 token. They are generated before the visible answer and count toward both latency and spend, so a higher reasoning setting costs more even when the final answer is short.

Can you call qwen3.6-35b-a3b with the OpenAI SDK you already use?

Yes. qwen3.6-35b-a3b is reachable through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so an existing OpenAI SDK client works after pointing the base URL at MixRoute and setting the model parameter to qwen3.6-35b-a3b . Keep your current request and response handling.

When was qwen3.6-35b-a3b released, and is it still maintained?

qwen3.6-35b-a3b was released on 2026-04-17. Its catalog status is stable. Check the model page for deprecation notices before you build a long-lived integration on it.

Model detail

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Provided by Alibaba

Pay-as-you-go

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated DeltaNet linear attention with standard gated attention layers, enabling efficient inference at a fraction of the compute cost. The model supports a 262K token native context window (extensible to 1M via YaRN) and accepts text, image, and video inputs. It includes integrated thinking mode with reasoning traces preserved across multi-turn conversations, function calling, and structured output. Released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Model specs

Model ID: qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Context length: 262.144K
Max output: 65.536K
I/O modalities
Released: 2026-04

API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$0.2480 /1M Tokens

Completion

$1.4850 /1M Tokens

Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

Open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token.

What should you check before using it?

262,144 context, 65,536 output tokens

Alibaba model that supports reasoning, tool calling and structured output. Knowledge cutoff: 2025-04. Released 2026-04-17.

Why use it through MixRoute?

qwen3.6-35b-a3b takes text and images on one route

Text and image inputs share the same route and the same key. MixRoute serves qwen3.6-35b-a3b on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint /v1/chat/completions; point your existing client at https://api.mixroute.ai/v1 with the model ID qwen3.6-35b-a3b and re-run your integration tests.

Capabilities & compatibility

Unconfirmed capabilities stay "Unknown," no guesses

Tool calling

qwen3.6-35b-a3b supports function and tool calls.

EX Send a tools definition; the response returns tool_calls to execute and feed results back.

Structured output

qwen3.6-35b-a3b can produce JSON-formatted output on demand.

EX response_format: { type: "json_schema" } forces valid JSON output.

Streaming

qwen3.6-35b-a3b supports streamed responses.

EX stream: true streams tokens incrementally, so chat UIs render as they arrive.

Vision input

qwen3.6-35b-a3b can process image inputs alongside text.

EX Pass a base64-encoded image in a image_url content part alongside text messages.

OpenAI SDK

Call qwen3.6-35b-a3b through MixRoute's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

EX Change base_url to https://api.mixroute.ai/v1; everything else follows the OpenAI style.

Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

Input tokens Max per request 262.144K

Output tokens Max per request 65.536K

Requests / month

Cache hit rate –

This model has no cache-read price; caching is not counted

FAQ

Recorded results for qwen3.6-35b-a3b: aa_intelligence_index 30.4. Benchmark positions are a coarse filter only — run your own prompts against the candidate models before you commit, because ranking shifts with task shape and prompt style.

Get started

01

Create an API key

Generate a key in the Console; one key calls every model.
02

Set the base URL

Fully OpenAI SDK-compatible; just swap the URL to connect.

https://api.mixroute.ai/v1
03

Specify the model ID

In the request's model field, enter:

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.

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