Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B or Seed 1.6?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, at $0.16 per million tokens against $0.69 for Seed 1.6, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: $0.16 at AIHubMix. Seed 1.6: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.69 is the number to beat.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 5 providers sell both: Eden AI, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.

Which holds more context?

Both hold 262k tokens in one call.

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B vs Seed 1.6

Prices checked 31 Oct

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B takes 1 of 5 rounds against Seed 1.6. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $0.16 per million tokens against $0.69.

Alibaba CloudWins 1 round

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

262k context · tool calling · reads images · open weights

$0.16/M tokens

Cheapest price, at AIHubMix · 6.1¢ per 1,000 pages

ByteDance

Seed 1.6

262k context · tool calling · reads images

$0.69/M tokens

OpenRouter's own price · $0.27 per 1,000 pages

Maker's price in (lower wins)

$0.25/M

Maker's price out (lower wins)

$2/M

Cheapest price (lower wins)

$0.16/M at AIHubMix

none below the maker

Maker's price, blended (lower wins)

$0.69/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

6.1¢

$0.27

Context

262k tokens

Open weights

yes

not published

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

yes

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

23 Feb 2026

23 Dec 2025

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

the maker's own

OpenRouter

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

not published

no provider to check

Providers selling both · 5

Eden AI$0.35 / $0.69
Nous Portal$0.35 / $0.69
OpenRouter$0.35 / $0.69
Kilo Gateway$0.45 / $0.69
LLM Gateway$0.69 / $0.69

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, then Seed 1.6, per million tokens.

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What moved this week

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B
Nous Portal · 50% dearer · 31 Oct
$0.14 / $1 6.5¢ / $0.75

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B or Seed 1.6?: Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, at $0.16 per million tokens against $0.69 for Seed 1.6, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 31 Oct 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: $0.16 at AIHubMix. Seed 1.6: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.69 is the number to beat.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 5 providers sell both: Eden AI, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway. The cheapest of them for the two together is Eden AI.
Which holds more context?: Both hold 262k tokens in one call.

Prices exclude tax, read 31 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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