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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8 Flash

Qwen3.8 Flash leads the LLM Stats Score 49.6 to 32.7.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen3.8 Flash leads the overall LLM Stats Score 49.6 to 32.7, ranking #16 overall.

In the 10 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Qwen3.8 Flash wins 10; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Choose Qwen3.8 Flash

  • overall performance matters — it scores 49.6 and ranks #16 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 10 of 10 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2026

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.8 Flash
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
32.7
#92
49.6
#16
Reasoning
33.4
#86
49.2
#16
Coding
20.1
#89
36.6
#20
Agents
12.0
#93
35.5
#14
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
0 of 10
10 of 10
Input price
— / M
$0.15 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.47 / M
Context window
—
1,000,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

4 shared
Index
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen3.8 Flash
Math
31.2#65
32.6#55
Vision
23.5#49
34.4#13
Tool use
11.8#103
31.6#10
Multimodal
26.0#38
36.2#8
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

49 reported for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · 22 for Qwen3.8 Flash

10 shared

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Qwen3.8 Flash is better at 10 benchmarks (CharXiv-R, GPQA, Humanity's Last Exam, LiveCodeBench v6, LVBench, NL2Repo, RealWorldQA, SWE-bench Multilingual, SWE-Bench Pro, Toolathlon).

Qwen3.8 Flash significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Mon Aug 31 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

90.0B diff

Qwen3.8 Flash has 90.0B more parameters than Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, making it 257.1% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
35.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.8 Flash
125.0Bparameters
35.0B
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
125.0B
Qwen3.8 Flash

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3.8 Flash specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Qwen3.8 Flash specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.8 Flash
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Mon Aug 31 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3.8 Flash

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Qwen3.8 Flash uses a proprietary license.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen3.8 Flash

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B was released on 2026-04-16, while Qwen3.8 Flash was released on 2026-08-26.

Qwen3.8 Flash is 4 months newer than Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Apr 16, 2026

4 months ago

Qwen3.8 Flash

Aug 26, 2026

5 days ago

4mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
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Qwen3.8 Flash
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FAQ

Common questions about Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8 Flash.

Which is better, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B or Qwen3.8 Flash?

Qwen3.8 Flash leads the LLM Stats Score 49.6 to 32.7. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team and Qwen3.8 Flash is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B compare to Qwen3.8 Flash in benchmarks?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B scores MMLU-Redux: 93.3%, MMBench-V1.1: 92.8%, AI2D: 92.7%, AIME 2026: 92.7%, RefCOCO-avg: 92.0%. Qwen3.8 Flash scores MathVision: 95.7%, LiveCodeBench v6: 91.9%, GPQA: 91.7%, CharXiv-R: 90.6%, RealWorldQA: 88.5%.

What are the context window sizes for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen3.8 Flash supports 1.0M tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8 Flash?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (32.7 vs 49.6), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs Proprietary). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

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