Qwen3.6 35B A3B

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

The best margin in the catalogue. 35.95B total but only ~3B active (8+1 of 256 experts), image and video input, native 262,144 context — and a KV cache of 10 KiB/token, so a full-length sequence costs 2.5GB. Larger than everything else here and cheaper to serve than most of it.

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Endpoints

Each row is one provider serving these weights at one precision. Prices are per million tokens.

Provider	Quantisation	Context	Max out	Input	Output	Cached in
Infersia	AWQ int4	256K	32K	$0.10	$0.90	$0.03

Prefix caching is enabled and the discount is passed through. If your agent replays the same system prompt each iteration, the repeated portion bills at the cached rate.

Agent config

Paste this into your coding agent and it can configure itself. The timeout is derived from this variant's measured throughput, not a guess — a long generation that outlives a client's default ceiling is the most common way a working request looks broken.

# Infersia — qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
# Paste this to your agent. Values are measured, not aspirational.

provider:
  type: openai-compatible
  base_url: https://api.infersia.com/v1
  api_key: ${INFERSIA_API_KEY}   # from https://infersia.com/dashboard/keys
  model: qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

limits:
  max_input_tokens: 262144      # hard limit — over this returns HTTP 413
  max_output_tokens: 32768
  timeout_seconds: 450                   # covers the full 32768 output budget at 150 tok/s, doubled for the tail
  # allow ~14s per 1,000 output tokens if you cap max_tokens lower

features:
  streaming: true
  tools: true
  vision: true
  reasoning: true   # OFF by default; send chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking=true to opt in
  prompt_caching: true   # automatic; reuse a stable prefix and it bills at the cache rate

pricing_usd_per_million_tokens:
  input: 0.1
  output: 0.9
  cached_input: 0.025

What AWQ int4 means

Activation-aware 4-bit weight quantisation. Small, measurable quality cost.

The quantisation is returned on every request in the x-infersia-quantization response header — so you can assert on it in your own tests rather than trusting this page.

Call it

curlbash

curl https://api.infersia.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $INFERSIA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "stream": true
  }'

Pin a provider with qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b@infersia, or take the cheapest with the bare id. Add :free for the rate-limited free tier where one exists.