How much does Qwen3.6 35B A3B cost per million tokens?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.05 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B accepts up to 262,144 tokens of context and returns up to 235,929 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

About $0.65, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.03 / $0.5) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Qwen API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Qwen sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Qwen · live price

Qwen3.6 35B A3B API pricing

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is an open-weight multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters per token. It uses a hybrid sparse mixture-of-experts architecture combining Gated...

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Input: $0.15; per 1M tokens
Output: $1; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Context: 262K; 236K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Qwen's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 27, 2026. Model id qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b.

What Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.65

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.70

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.65

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Qwen3.6 35B A3B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B price by host

Darkbloom serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

Darkbloom$0.05 in · $0.7 out · 262K ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h
AkashML$0.1 in · $0.9 out · 262K ctx · 99.6% uptime 24h
DeepInfra$0.1 in · $0.95 out · 262K ctx · 97.6% uptime 24h
Reka$0.1 in · $1 out · 262K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Venice$0.1 in · $1 out · 256K ctx · 99.1% uptime 24h
Parasail$0.15 in · $1 out · 262K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h
AtlasCloud$0.186 in · $1.11 out · 262K ctx · 99.2% uptime 24h
Phala$0.2 in · $1.27 out · 262K ctx · 92.1% uptime 24h
CoreWeave$0.25 in · $1.25 out · 262K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
SiliconFlow$0.24 in · $1.80 out · 262K ctx · 98.4% uptime 24h

Where to buy Qwen credits for less

Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.15 in / $1.00 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$17.50/ month(quotes below are for $18.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.15	$0.5	$0.237	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	$0.216	$0.647	$0.323	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731	$0.011	$1.28	$0.328	1.0M

Other Qwen models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen3.6 Flash	$0.188	$1.13	$0.422	1M
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20	$0.3	$1.80	$0.675	1M
Qwen3.6 27B	$0.32	$3.20	$1.04	262K
Qwen3.7 Max	$1.48	$4.42	$2.21	1M
Qwen3.6 Plus	$0.325	$1.95	$0.731	1M
Qwen3.7 Plus	$0.32	$1.28	$0.56	1M

All Qwen API prices