Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Demonstrates Competitive Performance Against Google Gemini

Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on April 16, 2026, with 35 billion total parameters and 3 billion active during inference. The model demonstrates competitive agentic coding performance against larger models like Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro while offering significant cost advantages at $0.38 per million input tokens.