Qwen3.8-27B vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
35.0 B
Context
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30d
964 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.8-27B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 27.8 B | 35.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration | Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 262,144 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 7,710,011 | 963,591 |
| Downloads all time | 17.7 M | 5.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-05 | 2026-02-24 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $2.50 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $2.70 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.09 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | 33.7 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | 68.1 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | 45.8 | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 21 | 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
Qwen3.8-27B
$2.70
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 66 days (20 Aug – 24 Oct)
7.8 M899 K
Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF · Q4_K_M
30.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3.8-27B · fp16
65.8 GB / 24 GB