Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
36.0 B
Context
—
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
31.1 B
Context
—
30d
16 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 36.0 B 31.1 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,520,129 15,613
Downloads all time 46.9 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-15 2025-09-30
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.29
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $1.29
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 9.5
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
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-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking $1.29

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

13.5 M16 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking

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-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking · fp16 73.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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