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Qwen3.6 35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8 Max

Alphabetical by model id, so this URL is the one to index. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is alibaba/qwen3.6-35b-a3b. Qwen3.8 Max is alibaba/qwen3.8-max. Both are among the models the most providers list, inside the Qwen group.

A

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

$3.72

per month at the reference workload

  • Reasoning
  • Tool use
  • Structured output
  • Vision
  • Long context
  • Open weights

vs

B

Qwen3.8 Max

$21.00

per month at the reference workload

  • Reasoning
  • Tool use
  • Vision
  • Long context
100 requests a day, 2,000 input tokens and 500 output tokens, no cache hits. A light chat workload so the rate cards are comparable.
SpecQwen3.6 35B-A3BQwen3.8 Max
Monthly, reference workload$3.72$21.00
Input / 1M$0.25$2.00
Output / 1M$1.49$6.00
Cache read / 1M—$0.25
Cache write / 1M—$2.50
Context262,1441,000,000
Max output65,536131,072
ReasoningYesYes
Tool callsYesYes
VisionYesYes
Open weightsYesNo
Providers3632
Released2026-04-172026-08-03

Same workload, your numbers

Prices are USD per 1M tokens. A month is 30 days. Cache hits use the cache-read rate when the model has one; otherwise the cache field is ignored.

Estimated monthly cost

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

$3.72

Cache hit is ignored because this model has no cache-read price.

Qwen3.8 Max costs $17.28 more per month than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at these inputs.

monthly = requests/day × 30 × (input tokens × (1 − cache hit) × input price + input tokens × cache hit × cache-read price + output tokens × output price) ÷ 1,000,000