Model
Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal)
EU sovereignEU Sovereign · 90/100Call Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) through an OpenAI-compatible API hosted in Europe: licence, real per-token price, hosting jurisdiction.
About this model
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is the first open-weight variant of the Qwen3.6 generation, published by the Qwen team in April 2026 under the Apache 2.0 licence. It is a Mixture-of-Experts language model with a vision encoder: 35 billion parameters in total, 3 billion activated per token (8 routed experts and 1 shared out of 256), on a hybrid Gated DeltaNet and Gated Attention layout. It accepts text, images and video. It thinks by default, and a new option keeps reasoning from earlier turns. Native context is 262,144 tokens, extensible to about one million. According to its model card, the release focuses on agentic coding and repository-level reasoning; it reports 73.4 on SWE-bench Verified and 86.0 on GPQA. It suits coding agents and multimodal assistants that need a large context at a small active size. Qwen3.6 27B is the dense model of the same generation.
Sources, checked on 20 October 2026: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ↗
Specifications
- API model id
- qwen3.6-35b
- Availability
- Live
- Hosting jurisdiction
- EU sovereign
- Served via
- Scaleway
- Publisher
- Qwen
- Parameters
- 36B (3B active)
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Context window
- 256k
- Modality
- Multimodal (text + image)
Open weights & AI Act facts
Factual characteristics of this model's weights — stated, not certified. Under the EU AI Act, whether a deployment is compliant depends on the model, your role and your use case.
- Open weights
- Weights public and freely executable
- AI Act class
- GPAI — general-purpose AI
- Systemic risk
- Not assessed by us — training compute not published, or too close to the 10²⁵ FLOP threshold to call
- Data retention
- None at Frontière AI; Scaleway states prompts are not stored, except requests causing errors or abuse (kept up to 2 weeks)
Frontière Verified
Our 6-criteria checklist for this model. Each criterion is assessed independently — a checkmark means we ran, recorded and passed the check; an empty circle means not confirmed yet.
Compliance evidence
Provider facts for this model's serving path, as documented by Frontière AI; the retention row quotes each provider's own documentation where it exists. Dates reflect the most recent documented audit of each fact.
Last verified: 2026-08-13
- Provider / operator
- Scaleway Generative APIs
- Country
- France
- Ownership / control
- EU-controlled — no non-EU capital control
- Jurisdiction
- EU (observed serving region)
- Deployment
- Managed cloud inference
- Data retention
- None at Frontière AI; Scaleway states prompts are not stored, except requests causing errors or abuse (kept up to 2 weeks)
Frontière AI retains neither prompts nor completions from API calls; processing is structured to fit a short DPA (Art. 28 GDPR). DPA and subprocessor documentation available on request.
What its label means
This model is run by a French provider (OVHcloud or Scaleway), in data centres in France. It is not a US company, so the CLOUD Act does not reach it the way it reaches a US provider, and under GDPR a foreign court order is only enforceable in the EU through an international agreement (Article 48). That is the SecNumCloud principle — who controls the operator matters more than where the servers sit — applied as a label, not a qualification: this service is not SecNumCloud-qualified. Our gateway runs in Vercel's Paris region (a US company): your prompts pass through it without being stored.
How we draw the line: GDPR vs. the CLOUD Act →All Qwen models and their jurisdiction →Sovereignty Score — 90/100
Deterministic 0–100 score computed from the five factors below — ownership, hosting jurisdiction, cloud-provider control, data retention, deployment control. Full methodology: How Frontière AI determines sovereignty →
- Operating-company ownership
- 40/40
- Hosting jurisdiction (observed)
- 30/30
- Cloud-provider control
- 10/15
- Data retention
- 10/10
- Deployment control
- 0/5
Effective provider assessed: scaleway.
Calling it
The API is OpenAI-compatible. Change base_url and the key, then use this model id:
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://getfrontiereai.eu/api/v1",
api_key=os.environ["FRONTIERE_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen3.6-35b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Bonjour"}],
)One key covers the whole catalog — you switch models by changing a single string.
API reference →Pricing
The price you see is the price debited from your prepaid balance, margin and VAT included — not an infrastructure cost. No subscription: top up from €10; calls are refused once the balance reaches zero, and a call already running can take it slightly below — deducted from your next top-up.
What will it cost you?
Pick a workload or type your own token counts: the estimate uses the prices above, margin and VAT included.
Example workload
Roughly 1,000 tokens ≈ 750 English words.
No discounted cache rate on this model: every input token is billed at the input rate.
Per request
€0.0015
Per day
€1.51
Per month
€45.36
30 days
A €10 top-up covers about 6,613 requests · Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Where the money goes
- Input€18.90 · 42%
- Output€26.46 · 58%
Estimate, margin and VAT included, from the prices on this page. You are billed on the tokens the provider reports for each call, debited from a prepaid balance — no subscription.
FAQ
Is Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) GDPR-compliant on Frontière AI?
It is the setup a GDPR assessment looks for: Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) is served by Scaleway, a French company, in data centres in France — not a US provider, so outside the CLOUD Act's direct reach. Your prompts transit through our gateway, hosted by Vercel in Paris (a US company), without being stored: Frontière AI keeps only the token counts billing requires. Compliance also depends on your use and your data processing agreement.
How much does Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) cost?
€0.042 per 100,000 input tokens and €0.252 per 100,000 output tokens — margin and VAT included, that is the amount debited from your prepaid balance. No subscription: you top up from €10; calls are refused once the balance reaches zero, and a call already running can take it slightly below — deducted from your next top-up.
How do I call Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) from my code?
The API is OpenAI-compatible: point base_url at https://getfrontiereai.eu/api/v1, swap the key, and pass “qwen3.6-35b” as the model field. Your SDK, scripts and tools keep working, streaming included.
Under which licence is Qwen3.6 35B A3B (multimodal) released?
Apache-2.0, a permissive licence. It covers the model weights published by Qwen; your use through Frontière AI's API is separately governed by our own terms.
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