Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
36.0 B
Context
—
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
36.0 B
Context
—
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 36.0 B 36.0 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,962,067 4,209,694
Downloads all time 49.4 M 35.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-15 2026-04-15
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.90
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $1.00
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.025
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 41.9
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 13.1
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 11
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B $1.00

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

13.5 M3.1 M
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 · fp16 47.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · fp16 85.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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