Qwen3.5-35B-A3B API Pricing
Alibaba · Budget · Qwen · released 2026-03. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-11.
- Input: $0.31 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.25 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.16
- Context window: 262K
- Arena ELO: 1395 (as of 2026-09-02)
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0011 | $0.000953 | $95 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0016 | $0.0014 | $141 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.0046 | $0.0045 | $447 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.0030 | $0.0030 | $295 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.0034 | $0.0032 | $320 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0012 | $0.0011 | $115 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0015 | $0.0015 | $147 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.0056 | $0.0050 | $497 |
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 7 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-11 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Darkbloom — fp4 | $0.08 | $0.75 |
| DeepInfra — fp8 | $0.14 | $1.00 |
| Parasail — fp8 | $0.15 | $1.00 |
| Alibaba | $0.16 | $1.30 |
| Venice (the price shown above) | $0.31 | $1.25 |
| AtlasCloud — fp8 | $0.23 | $1.80 |
| SiliconFlow — fp8 | $0.24 | $1.80 |
Models comparable to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMax) — $0.27 in / $1.08 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1391
- Qwen3.5-27B (Alibaba) — $0.20 in / $1.56 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1408
- GPT-4.1 Mini (OpenAI) — $0.40 in / $1.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1382
- DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek) — $0.27 in / $0.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1425
Common questions about Qwen3.5-35B-A3B pricing
- How much does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cost?
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.31 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.16/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs about $109 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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