Alibaba · Qwen Medium line · lightweight · open weights
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B was released by Alibaba on April 16, 2026, as an open-weights lightweight model in the Qwen Medium line.
Alibaba's open mixture-of-experts model activates 3 billion of its 35 billion parameters and scores 51.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, up from 40.5% for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B; it is licensed under Apache 2.0.
Compared with Qwen 3.5 Medium · the model it replaces
Fixes nearly 3 in 4 real software bugs
SWE-bench Verified — fixing real bugs in real software projects, run with Qwen's own agent setup
73.4%
▲ up from 70.0% for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B · +3.4 points
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