Qwen3.5-35B-A3B API Pricing
Alibaba (Qwen) · context window 262K · prices updated 2026-10-30
Where Qwen3.5-35B-A3B sits on price
At $1.00 per million output tokens, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is a mid tier model — 2.2× cheaper than the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 69% and pricier than 31% of the models we track. It sits 25th cheapest of the 42 Alibaba (Qwen) models we track. Output costs 7.1× more than input here, so anything that makes the model write less — tighter instructions, structured output, lower max_tokens — moves the bill more than trimming the prompt.
Cached input is 64% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 39% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $1.00/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0021 | $31.50 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0009 | $276 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0002 | $6.60 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Qwen3.5-35B-A3B with caching and batch options.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B price history
Alibaba (Qwen) last raised Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's output price on Oct 21, 2026, from $0.15/$1.00 to $0.14/$1.00 per 1M in/out. That is one of 14 repricings in the 89 days we have tracked it — worth knowing before you hard-code today's rate into a budget.
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M | Output change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2026 (tracking began) | $0.14 | $1.00 | — |
| Aug 13, 2026 | $0.25 | $1.25 | +25% |
| Aug 14, 2026 | $0.225 | $1.80 | +44% |
| Aug 21, 2026 | $0.25 | $1.25 | -31% |
| Sep 5, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.75 | -40% |
| Sep 6, 2026 | $0.3125 | $1.25 | +67% |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $0.1625 | $1.30 | +4% |
| Sep 20, 2026 | $0.3125 | $1.25 | -4% |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.1625 | $1.30 | +4% |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.15 | $1.00 | -23% |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.75 | -25% |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.15 | $1.00 | +33% |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.75 | -25% |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.15 | $1.00 | +33% |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.14 | $1.00 | 0% |
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus (DeepSeek) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.13 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B API cost?
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.05 per million (64% cheaper). That works out to roughly 1,000,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0021 per request and $31.50 per month on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's 262K context window?
Sending 262K of input in a single request costs $0.0367 at $0.14 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0131 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B worth the price?
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B sits in the middle of the market (25 of 42 by price within Alibaba (Qwen)). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.