# Qwen 3.5 35B a3b API

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 35B a3b, through an OpenAI-compatible API. Providers quote it on an open exchange, and each request goes to the offer with the lowest estimated charge that meets your rules.

- Providers compete for each request. The exchange ranks the offers that meet your rules by estimated charge. It fixes your maximum charge before the first token, and you pay for the tokens that the model uses.
- The OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. Use the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK that you have. Set the base URL and your key, and send qwen3.5-35b-a3b as the model.
- Your data rules. Send x-liquid-retention: none and only offers whose provider does not keep your content compete for the request.

## Facts

- Model name: qwen3.5-35b-a3b
- Maker: Alibaba
- Context window: 32K tokens
- Input price: $0.057 per million tokens
- Output price: $0.459 per million tokens
- Providers: 1 independent provider
- Regions: global

## Providers

- [EmpirioLabs AI](https://liquidinference.ai/providers/4f49f07c-0d26-44bd-88a8-34f3f5fbd3b7.md): global, $0.057 input and $0.459 output per million tokens, $0.057 cache read per million tokens, 32K tokens of context

## Scores

- HLE: 21.0, #114 of 273
- GPQA: 84.5, #79 of 250
- AA-LCR: 72.0, #107 of 237
- Terminal-Bench Hard: 26.5, #66 of 166
- τ²-Bench: 89.2, #40 of 169
- IFBench: 72.5, #28 of 178
- SimpleQA Verified: 20.3, #93 of 126

Scores: Artificial Analysis (https://artificialanalysis.ai/)

Scores: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & Benchmarking' (https://epoch.ai/benchmarks)

## Request

```sh
curl https://router.inference.ai.exchange/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIQUID_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3.5-35b-a3b",
    "messages": [{"role":"user","content":"Say hello."}]
  }'
```

## Questions

### What is Qwen 3.5 35B a3b?

Served by intent-router: each job goes to the cheapest healthy upstream for this model.

### How much does Qwen 3.5 35B a3b cost?

Offers now ask $0.057 per million input tokens and $0.459 per million output tokens. A job pays for the tokens it uses. The exchange picks the cheapest eligible offer.

### What is the context length of Qwen 3.5 35B a3b?

The largest offer takes 32,000 input tokens. A smaller offer can take less. The exchange skips an offer that cannot take your message.

### What can Qwen 3.5 35B a3b do?

Its providers list Reasoning budget, Reasoning effort, JSON object, Log probabilities, Presence penalty, Repetition penalty, Seed, Stop sequences, Top-k sampling, Top-p sampling, Text, Tools.

### What inputs and outputs does Qwen 3.5 35B a3b support?

Text → Text.

### Which providers serve Qwen 3.5 35B a3b?

1 independent provider quote it now, with 1 offer. The table above ranks them by the cost of a typical job.

### How do I call Qwen 3.5 35B a3b?

Send "qwen3.5-35b-a3b" as the model in an OpenAI or Anthropic request. The API section links to setup steps for each client.

### When was Qwen 3.5 35B a3b listed?

The exchange first listed it on 10/8/2026. This is not its release date.

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