Today's price · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.250
per 1M tokens
Output
$2.00
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.688
blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output
How this price is scoped: Alibaba Model Studio International list price, single 0<Token≤256K tier, from the vendor's open-source Qwen table. Thinking-mode output is billed at the same rate as non-thinking. No context-cache or batch rate is printed for this SKU, so cached input is left unset rather than assumed. Gateway resellers quote lower routed rates ($0.225/$1.80). This SKU's row carries no discount label, so the standard list rate is the one tracked here — the same basis as every other Alibaba row on this site.
Price receipt
We read Alibaba's own pricing page on Aug 17, 2026 and found qwen3.5-35b-a3b listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 13743e31b3.
Overview
Open-weights Qwen3.5 MoE (35B total, 3B active) served by Alibaba, the model's maker, on Model Studio. $0.25/$2.00 per 1M tokens, a single 0–256K tier, with thinking-mode output billed at the same rate as non-thinking. 256K-token context, text-only.
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Capabilities
struck through = not supportedBenchmark performance
accuracy % · higher is betterWe hold no per-benchmark accuracy scores for this model yet, so it has no accuracy average. That is a gap in our coverage, not a sign the model is untested — independent evaluators often publish a composite index for a new model long before releasing its per-benchmark numbers. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.
- AA-Omniscience Index: -48.1 (−100–100)
- LMSYS Chatbot Arena: 1395.5 ELO (Human preference)
- Ranks #126 of 161 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 2 independent measurements
- Ranks #86 of 161 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar
Source: Artificial Analysis · updated Aug 17, 2026 · See full rankings →
Specifications
- Provider
- Alibaba
- Context window
- 262K tokens
- Modality
- text
- Parameters
- 35B (A3B)
- Open source
- Yes — open weights available
- Released
- Feb 25, 2026
- Status
- Current
- Last updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- Tags
Availability verified: Aug 17, 2026 — listed on Alibaba's own page