Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

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

nvidia · A · Open weights
Params
18.7 B
Context
—
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 18.7 B 30.5 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,971,809 1,624,686
Downloads all time 42.1 M 17.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2025-07-31
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.75
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
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 2
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct $0.75

Download trend

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

12.6 M384 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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