Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 36.0 B | 27.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration | Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 262,144 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,591,542 | 5,285,294 |
| Downloads all time | 21.9 M | 17.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-24 | 2026-08-13 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.14 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.00 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.14 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.05 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | 37 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 81,920 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 7 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
$1.14
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
7.9 M1.1 M
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 · fp16
38.6 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B · fp16
85.0 GB / 24 GB