Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 52.9 | 54.9 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.26/M |
| Output Price | $0.90/M | $2.08/M |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 235,929 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 52.2 | 53.3 |
| ai_index_agentic | 35.3 | 34.2 |
| ai_index_coding | 69.1 | 75.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs $0.33 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.78, so Qwen3.6 35B A3B is about 2.4 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads 54.9 to 52.9.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on 15 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Qwen3.6 35B A3B was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B in February 2026.
Pick Qwen3.6 35B A3B if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 154 | 155 |
| Code Review | 147 | 148 |
| Code Completion | 130 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 144 | 145 |
| Bug Fixing | 156 | 156 |
| Unit Test Generation | 140 | 140 |
| Code Documentation | 133 | 133 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 132 | 132 |
| Frontend Component Design | 137 | 137 |
| Data Analysis | 151 | 152 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 141 | 142 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 139 |
| JSON Extraction | 143 | 143 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 133 | 133 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 138 | 139 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 138 | 139 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 142 | 143 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 128 | 128 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 130 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →