Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 47.9 |
| Input Price | $0.19/M | $0.14/M |
| Output Price | $1.12/M | $1.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 81,920 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 48.3 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.39 and Qwen3.6 Flash costs $0.47, so Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is about 1.2 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.6 Flash reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.6 Flash scores higher on 7 (Code Completion, Code Refactoring, Code Documentation and others), Qwen3.5-35B-A3B on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Bug Fixing and others).
Qwen3.6 Flash was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B in February 2026.
Pick Qwen3.6 Flash if you need long documents; pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you need lower cost.
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 Flash | Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 136 |
| Code Review | 132 | 135 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 135 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 139 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 127 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 123 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 127 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 131 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 129 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 130 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 130 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →