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Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Open weights by Qwen

Our fastest model, built to support a main coder rather than replace it: scout subagents, context gathering, summaries and quick edits. Its file edits get unreliable in long sessions, so leave sustained editing to a full coder such as GLM 5.3 Flash.

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Price per 1M tokens
$0.15 in$1.00 out
$0.05 cache read
Context
256K
256K max output
Parameters
35B
3B active
Weights
FP8
Official release
  • Vision
  • Tool calling
  • Reasoning optional, default medium

How it ranks

Against every model we serve, best first. Starred scores are reported by the publisher on its model card; the rest are independent measurements. About the scores

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexby Artificial Analysis
  1. GLM 5.345
  2. Kimi K344
  3. GLM 5.3 Flash42
  4. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash39
  5. DeepSeek V4 Flash34
  6. Qwen3.6 35B A3B18
DeepSWEby Datacurve
  1. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%* reported by the publisher
  2. GLM 5.369%
  3. Kimi K368.5%
  4. GLM 5.3 Flash63.4%
  5. DeepSeek V4 Flash54.4%* reported by the publisher

Not published: Qwen3.6 35B A3B.

Terminal-Bench 2.1by tbench.ai
  1. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash90.6%* reported by the publisher
  2. Kimi K385%
  3. GLM 5.3 Flash84.3%
  4. GLM 5.383.9%
  5. DeepSeek V4 Flash78.7%
  6. Qwen3.6 35B A3B44.9%
  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index for Qwen3.6 35B A3B: independent measurement. Source
  • Terminal-Bench 2.1 for Qwen3.6 35B A3B: independent measurement. Source

Pricing

Input
$0.15 per 1M tokens
Output
$1.00 per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.05 per 1M tokens

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Specs

Context window
256K tokens
Max output
256K tokens
Parameters
35B total, 3B active per token
Vision
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Reasoning
Adjustable (none, low, medium, high)
Default effort
medium
Weights
FP8, official release
In production since
May 3, 2026

Quickstart

Pick your tool; the command already carries this model's id. More tools (Pi, Copilot, Zed, omp) in the setup guides.

OpenCode
Built in
Launch OpenCode on this model with the umans CLI. Umans AI is also built into OpenCode: run /connect and pick it.
Terminal
curl -fsSL https://api.code.umans.ai/cli/install.sh | bash   # once
umans opencode --model umans-flash
Full setup in the docs

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