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Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B

Alibaba · Qwen Coder line · coding · open weights

Released April 16, 2026Replaced by Qwen3.6-27B

What changed

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Where the Qwen Coder line stands

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Qwen3.6-27B

Alibaba · Qwen Coder line · coding · open weights
Due140 days since the last release — usual gap is 95

The first open-weight variant of the Qwen3.6 family — a coding-focused 27B dense model under Apache 2.0 with a 262K native context, extensible to 1M.

Released Apr 22, 2026 · what changed →
Days since last release
Qwen3.6-27B · Apr 22, 2026
140
days
Usual gap
95
days
Recent gaps
Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B · Apr 2026
77
Qwen3-Coder-Next · Feb 2026
112
Qwen 3-Coder · Oct 2025
337
Qwen 2.5-Coder 32B · Nov 2024
54

Every Qwen Coder release

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  1. Apr 22, 2026Qwen3.6-27B
  2. Apr 16, 2026Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B · this page
  3. Feb 4, 2026Qwen3-Coder-Next
  4. Oct 15, 2025Qwen 3-Coder
  5. Nov 12, 2024Qwen 2.5-Coder 32B
  6. Sep 19, 2024Qwen 2.5-Coder

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