Qwen3.5 35B A3B API Benchmarks: Latency, Throughput & Cost
Blog post from Deepinfra
Qwen3.5 35B A3B, a vision-language model launched by Alibaba Cloud in 2026, integrates Gated Delta Networks with a sparse Mixture-of-Experts model to achieve higher inference efficiency with 35 billion parameters, activating only 3 billion per token. Offering a 262k token context window, tool calling, dual thinking modes, and support for 201 languages, the model is available through various providers under the Apache 2.0 license. DeepInfra (FP8) emerges as the preferred API for interactive applications due to its unmatched initial response time of 0.60 seconds and fastest end-to-end performance of 14.86 seconds, while GMI (FP8) excels in throughput with 190 tokens per second. Novita provides a balanced option with competitive pricing and performance, and Alibaba Cloud offers first-party support and extended features via the Qwen3.5-Flash hosted API. The choice of provider depends on specific application needs, balancing between speed, cost, and throughput.
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