Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
31.1 B
Context
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30d
16 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 36.0 B | 31.1 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration | Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 3,733,341 | 15,613 |
| Downloads all time | 32.3 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 | $0.10 | $0.29 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.95 | $1.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.05 | $1.29 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.05 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 18.2 | 9.5 |
| AA Coding Index | 41.9 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 13.1 | — |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 235,929 |
| API providers | 10 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$1.05
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
$1.29
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is 1.2× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
6.2 M16 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking · fp16
73.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · fp16
85.0 GB / 24 GB