One agent session
1M input tokens and 100K output tokens, no caching.
- Input1M x $0.25 = $0.25
- Output0.1M x $2 = $0.20
$0.45per session
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) - Open weights
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B pricing and specs
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is an open-weights model from Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) that costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens on the first-party API, with a 262K-token context window.
Last verified from alibabacloud.com. All sources
- Input / 1M
- $0.25
- Output / 1M
- $2
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Weights
- Open
Pricing per 1M tokens
| Item | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 |
| Output | $2 |
Note: International (Singapore) list prices. Open-weights MoE vision-language model served on Model Studio. One tier up to 256K input tokens; thinking output costs the same. No cache or batch price listed. The console states context 256K and max output 64K; recorded as 262,144 and 65,536.
Specs
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Release date
- Provider
- Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)
- API model id
qwen3.5-35b-a3b- Weights
- Open weights
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Weights download
- huggingface.co
What Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs in practice
Worked from the standard list rates above, with the math shown so you can swap in your own token counts.
A chat app
10,000 requests a day at 2K input and 500 output tokens each.
- Input20M x $0.25 = $5.00
- Output5M x $2 = $10.00
$15.00per day
$450.00 per 30-day month
Compare with
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (this page) | $0.25 | $2 |
| GPT-3.5 Turbo InstructOpenAI | $1.50 | $2 |
| GPT-5 MiniOpenAI | $0.25 | $2 |
| Grok Build 0.1xAI | $1 | $2 |
| Seed 2.0 LiteByteDance Seed | $0.25 | $2 |
| Qwen3.5-Omni-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.40 | $2.20 |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3BAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.375 | $2.25 |
| Qwen3-VL-PlusAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.20 | $1.60 |
| Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.30 | $2.40 |
| Qwen3.5-PlusAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.40 | $2.40 |
| Qwen3.7-PlusAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.40 | $1.60 |
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- Terminal-Universe Turns Agent Traces Into Training EnvironmentsTerminal-Universe, Qwen's paper on rebuilding terminal-agent trajectories into reusable environments, and why agent teams should keep replayable workspaces.
- Qwen3.8-27B vs Opus 4.6 Max: Local Agentic Coding BenchmarksQwen3.8-27B is a 27B dense Apache-2.0 model that beats Opus 4.6 Max on SWE-bench Pro (61.7 vs 53.4). Benchmarks, hardware, cost and when to run it.
- Qwen 3.8 Max Ships: 2.4T MoE, 1M Context, $2/$6 per MTok, Open Weights Next WeekQwen 3.8 Max is a 2.4T-parameter MoE with 95B active, a 1M context window and $2/$6 per million tokens on QwenCloud, with open weights promised next week.
- Qwen-UI-Agent Points at the Next GUI Agent RuntimeQwen-UI-Agent, Alibaba's GUI agent report, reads best as a product spec: mobile, desktop, browser, CLI and DeepSearch combined in one stateful agent runtime.
- $500 RL Fine-Tune of a 9B Open Model Beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.8 on Catalog ReviewA $500 GRPO fine-tune of Qwen 3.5 9B beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 4.8 on catalog review, hitting 97% accuracy at a fraction of the cost per listing.
FAQ
How much does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cost per million tokens?
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens on Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)'s first-party API, per alibabacloud.com on October 17, 2026.
What is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's context window?
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has a 262,144-token context window and returns up to 65,536 output tokens per response.
Are Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's weights open?
Yes. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's weights are published at https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B under the Apache-2.0.
When was Qwen3.5-35B-A3B released?
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) released Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on February 23, 2026.
Sources
Last verified from alibabacloud.com.
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing
- https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com/ap-southeast-1/model/market/detail/qwen3.5-35b-a3b
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/text-generation-model
- https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/newly-released-models
- https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
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