Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen · released 2026-04-01 · Apache-2.0 license
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is Alibaba's April 2026 open-weight MoE with only ~3B active parameters, giving strong agentic coding (73.4% SWE-bench Verified) at very low inference cost, a notch behind the dense 27B.
Key specs
| Type | Local open-weight |
|---|---|
| Parameters | — |
| Architecture | — |
| Context window | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| Modalities | text, vision |
| Recommended backends | — |
| Minimum viable rig | — |
Benchmark scores
| GPQA Diamond | 86% |
|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.4% |
| AIME | 92.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.2% |
| BFCL v3 (tool use) | — |
| Composite score | 7.12 |
| Community rating | No reviews yet |
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths: Sparse MoE: ~3B active, runs at ~3B inference cost with strong agentic coding; Solid SWE-bench Verified (73.4) for a tiny active footprint; Multimodal, Apache-2.0
Weaknesses: Trails the dense 27B sibling on most benchmarks; Low HLE (21.4) limits hardest reasoning