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Qwen3.6

Qwen3.6 is an open-weight language model from Qwen, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs Qwen 4 variants 12.9M downloads/mo
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What Qwen3.6 is

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 [](https://chat.qwen.ai) [!Note] This repository contains FP8-quantized model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format. These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, KTransformers, etc. The quantization method is fine-grained fp8 quantization with block size of 128, and its performance metrics are nearly identical to those of the original model. Following the February release of the Qwen3.5 series, we're pleased to share the first open-weight variant of Qwen3.6. Built on direct feedback from the community, Qwen3.6 prioritizes stability and real-world utility, offering developers a more intuitive, responsive, and genuinely productive coding experience. Qwen3.6 Highlights This release delivers substantial upgrades, particularly in - Agentic Coding: the model now handles frontend workflows and repository-level reasoning with greater fluency and precision. - Thinking Preservation: we've introduced a new option to retain reasoning context from historical messages, streamlining iterative development and reducing overhead. For more details, please refer to our blog post Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Model Overview - Type: Causal Language Model with Vision Encoder - Training Stage: Pre-training & Post-training - Language Model - Number of Parameters: 35B in total and 3B activated - Hidden Dimension: 2048 - Token Embedding: 248320 (Padded) - Number of Layers: 40 - Hidden Layout: 10 × (3 × (Gated DeltaNet → MoE) → 1 × (Gated Attention → MoE)) - Gated DeltaNet: - Number of Linear Attention Heads: 32 for V and 16 for QK - Head Dimension: 128 - Gated Attention: - Number of Attention Heads: 16 for Q and 2 for KV - Head Dimension: 256 - Rotary Position Embedding Dimension: 64 - Mixture Of Experts - Number of Experts: 256 - Number of Activated Experts: 8 Routed + 1 Shared - Expert Intermediate Dimension: 512 - LM Output: 248320 (Padded) - MTP: trained with multi-steps - Context Length: 262,144 natively and extensible up to 1,010,000 tokens. Benchmark Results Language SWE-Bench Series: Internal agent scaffold (bash + file-edit tools); temp=1.0, topp=0.95, 200K context window. We corre

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerQwen
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)36.0B
Variants4
Runs withtransformers
Based onQwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Released2026-04-15
Popularity12.9M downloads / month
Likes2,754
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP836.0BFP8~41.3 GBWeights ↗
Qwen3.6-27B-FP827.8BFP8~32 GBWeights ↗
Qwen3.6-27B27.8BBF16~63.9 GBWeights ↗
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B36.0BBF16~82.7 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys qwen3-6 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen3-6 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen3-6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors qwen3_5_moe image-text-to-text conversational endpoints_compatible fp8 deploy:azure qwen3_5 deploy:sagemaker eval-results

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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