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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights

The catch: The card advises keeping at least 128K tokens of context to preserve its thinking, which raises GPU memory needs.

AccessOpen weights
Free limitsFree to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 35B total / 3B active (MoE); 262,144-token native context, extensible to about 1M. Apache 2.0, no user or revenue cap. An FP8 copy is at Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8.
Modalitytext, code, image, video
Credit cardNot required
Commercial useAllowed
Trains on your data–
Licence or termsApache-2.0
Context window262,144 tokens
Model idQwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Base URL–
Last checked8 Oct 2026

How to use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.

Quickstart 
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B  # then: curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Paste into Claude Code 
I want to run the open-weight model "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B" (Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) for my project.
Please:
1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint).
2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request.
3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use.
4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
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Before you ship on it

  • The card advises keeping at least 128K tokens of context to preserve its thinking, which raises GPU memory needs.
  • Apache-2.0 (licence tag and LICENSE on the HF repo): use, modify, distribute and sell, including commercially; keep the licence and notices when you redistribute.
  • Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.

Questions

Is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B free?

Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.

Can I use Qwen3.6-35B-A3B commercially?

Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.

How do I start with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, checked 8 Oct 2026.