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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is an open-weight model from Alibaba, released Feb 25, 2026. It ranks #164 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1395. It costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens, with a 256K-token context window.

LMArena text1395−1 in 30 days
Rank#164/351
95% interval1390–1399
Votes30.4K
Developer
Alibaba Qwen
Released
Feb 25, 2026
Context window
256K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.14 / $1
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text, Images, Video
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
1.5M
Hugging Face likes
1.5K
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, LMArena text rating over time
13801390140014101420Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestQwen3.5-35B-A3B 1395

The rating LMArena published at each update since Feb 26, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1395164 / 35130.4K
CodingLMArena1410165 / 3468.4K
MathLMArena1404158 / 3391.9K
Creative writingLMArena1347170 / 3494.7K
Instruction followingLMArena1379159 / 3519.9K
Hard promptsLMArena1400164 / 35119.3K
Multi-turnLMArena1390166 / 3495.5K
Long queriesLMArena1389167 / 33011.9K
ExpertLMArena1407148 / 3052.8K
Legal and governmentIndustries1398159 / 3252.4K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1421128 / 3252.3K
Business and financeIndustries1394152 / 3446.1K
ChineseLanguages1456120 / 3282.1K
SpanishLanguages1390157 / 2491K
GermanLanguages1367158 / 261488
FrenchLanguages1413143 / 252888
JapaneseLanguages1326146 / 236251
WebDevLMArena1254137 / 1241.6K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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Alibaba Qwen

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io

Questions

Who makes Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.

How much does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cost?

$0.14 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B’s context window?

256K tokens (262,144).

How does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B rank?

#164 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1395 (95% interval 1390–1399) from 30,443 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B open source?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B).

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