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Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B provider comparison

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

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...

Endpoints:
6
Context:
262.1K
Input:
text, image, video
Output:
text
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At a glance

Comparison winners

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens using the latest published median speed data.

Best cost/speed trade-off

Parasailparasail/fp8

$0.4333 / 1M tokens

5.59 s estimated response

Cheapest

DekaLLMdekallm

$0.42 / 1M tokens

$0.00063 for the sample request

Visual comparison

Price and performance charts

Compare published endpoint pricing and estimated response time visually.

Effective price by endpoint

USD per 1 million tokens for input and output. Lower is better.

DekaLLM has the lowest estimated cost for 1,000 input and 500 output tokens at $0.00063.

Estimated cost vs. response time

Based on 1,000 input and 500 output tokens. Cost is shown in USD per 1 million tokens. Lower and further left is better; the single best cost/speed trade-off appears at full opacity.

6 providers have complete pricing and speed data. Parasail is closest to the ideal combination of lowest cost and fastest response.

Server-rendered comparison

Provider endpoints

Prompt and completion prices are effective USD per token as published by OpenRouter. Missing speed data never removes an endpoint.

Endpoint comparison for Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Provider / routeCurrent pricing ↗Speed measurementsEndpoint details
Provider / route
DekaLLMdekallm
Cheapest
Current pricing
Input price
$0.13 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.00063
Speed measurements
500-token response
50.03 s
Response starts
4.58 s
Output speed
11.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
97.45%
Context
262.1K
Model format
unknown
Max output
N/a
12 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, top_p

Provider / route
AkashMLakashml/fp8
Current pricing
Input price
$0.14 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.00064
Speed measurements
500-token response
9.13 s
Response starts
0.80 s
Output speed
60.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
99.97%
Context
262.1K
Model format
fp8
Max output
262.1K
17 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p

Provider / route
Parasailparasail/fp8
Best cost/speed trade-off
Current pricing
Input price
$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.00065
Speed measurements
500-token response
5.59 s
Response starts
0.69 s
Output speed
102.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
99.95%
Context
262.1K
Model format
fp8
Max output
262.1K
18 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p

Provider / route
AtlasCloudatlas-cloud/fp8
Current pricing
Input price
$0.186 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.11 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.00074287
Speed measurements
500-token response
63.47 s
Response starts
0.97 s
Output speed
8.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
100.00%
Context
262.1K
Model format
fp8
Max output
65.5K
15 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p

Provider / route
SiliconFlowsiliconflow/fp8
Current pricing
Input price
$0.2 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.6 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.001
Speed measurements
500-token response
12.15 s
Response starts
1.52 s
Output speed
47.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
99.39%
Context
262.1K
Model format
fp8
Max output
262.1K
11 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, structured_outputs, temperature, top_k, top_p

Provider / route
Weights & Biaseswandb/fp8
Fastest
Current pricing
Input price
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.25 / 1M tokens
Sample cost
$0.000875
Speed measurements
500-token response
2.99 s
Response starts
0.26 s
Output speed
183.0 tok/s
Endpoint details
Uptime (30 min)
99.84%
Context
262.1K
Model format
fp8
Max output
262.1K
15 parameters

frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logprobs, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B deployment guide

How to choose a Qwen3.6 35B A3B inference provider

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is indexed here as a text model by Qwen, with 6 provider endpoints from DekaLLM, AkashML, Parasail, AtlasCloud, SiliconFlow, and others. The comparison preserves each exact OpenRouter routing tag so pricing and performance observations can be connected to the route an application would actually request.

Match the endpoint to the workload

The model publishes a 262.1K-token context window. It accepts text, image, video input and returns text output. 19 distinct supported parameters appear across the listed routes. Confirm limits on the specific endpoint rather than assuming every host exposes the same configuration.

Compare the real request economics

DekaLLM currently has the lowest estimated cost for the standard 1,000-input/500-output-token sample at $0.00063. Input-heavy and output-heavy applications can produce a different result, so review both per-million-token prices in the endpoint table.

Balance response start and generation speed

Weights & Biases currently has the shortest estimated 500-token response at 2.99 seconds. Parasail is the single endpoint closest to the current ideal cost/speed combination. Recent observations can change, so validate finalists with your own prompts.