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Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs GLM 5 Turbo

Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) and GLM 5 Turbo (Z.ai) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 9 September 2026

As of 9 September 2026, Qwen3.6 35B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#71 vs #73); Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 4.4× cheaper per output token ($0.90/1M vs $4.00/1M); Qwen3.6 35B A3B offers the longer context window (262K vs 203K tokens); and Qwen3.6 35B A3B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Qwen3.6 35B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #71 against #73 (50.6 vs 50.4 points).
  • API cost matters — $0.90/1M output tokens against $4.00/1M, about 4.4× cheaper.
  • your workload is prompt-heavy — input tokens cost $0.10/1M against $1.20/1M.
  • you need the longer context window — 262K tokens against 203K.
  • you want to self-host: Qwen3.6 35B A3B ships open weights while GLM 5 Turbo is api only.
  • you want provider choice — 10 listed API providers against 1.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Qwen3.6 35B A3B was listed 27 April 2026, GLM 5 Turbo 15 March 2026.

Choose GLM 5 Turbo if…

  • AA τ²-Bench Telecom is your yardstick — 98.5% against 95.3%.
  • AA Humanity's Last Exam is your yardstick — 27.8% against 22.2%.

Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs GLM 5 Turbo: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Qwen3.6 35B A3B and GLM 5 Turbo
FieldQwen3.6 35B A3BQwenGLM 5 TurboZ.ai
ModelCap Index position#71#73
Index score50.650.4
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokens$0.10$1.20
Output price / 1M tokens$0.90$4.00
Context window262K tokens203K tokens
Max output tokens236K131K
API providers listed101
Weight accessOpen weightsAPI only
Input modalitiesText, Image, VideoText
First listed27 April 202615 March 2026
PublisherQwenZ.ai

Evidence: publisher-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (13%); opens above measured predecessor qwen/qwen3.5-35b-a3b on same-family ordering evidence (46%); launch card against 4 resolved peers on 10 rows (41%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 0.2 toward the measured corpus · publisher-corpus-prior over 182 held-out anchors (64%); 1 specialist-board observation at 1.3% support (36%); shrunk 23.7 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs GLM 5 Turbo

Public benchmark boards where Qwen3.6 35B A3B or GLM 5 Turbo has a published result
BoardQwen3.6 35B A3BGLM 5 TurboLeads
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis44.9%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.6 35B A3B":reasoning=true—Only one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis95.3%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.6 35B A3B":reasoning=true98.5%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueGLM 5 Turbo
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis22.2%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3.6 35B A3B":reasoning=true27.8%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="GLM-5-Turbo":reasoning=trueGLM 5 Turbo
WildClawBench OpenClawWildClawBench—33.9Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs GLM 5 Turbo: common questions

Is Qwen3.6 35B A3B better than GLM 5 Turbo?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 9 September 2026: #71 against #73. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Qwen3.6 35B A3B cheaper than GLM 5 Turbo?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on output tokens: $0.90/1M against $4.00/1M. Input tokens are $0.10/1M for Qwen3.6 35B A3B and $1.20/1M for GLM 5 Turbo. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.65 for Qwen3.6 35B A3B versus $4.40 for GLM 5 Turbo. Qwen3.6 35B A3B costs 85.2% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.6 35B A3B or GLM 5 Turbo?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B has the larger context window: 262K tokens against 203K.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.6 35B A3B or GLM 5 Turbo?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Qwen3.6 35B A3B and GLM 5 Turbo open-weight models?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Open weights. GLM 5 Turbo: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Qwen3.6 35B A3B and GLM 5 Turbo?

ModelCap currently lists 10 API providers for Qwen3.6 35B A3B and 1 for GLM 5 Turbo, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs GLM 5 Turbo comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 9 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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