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This release delivers substantial upgrades, particularly in
For more details, please refer to our blog post Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
For streamlined integration, we recommend using Qwen3.6 via APIs. Below is a guide to use Qwen3.6 via OpenAI-compatible API.
Qwen3.6 can be served via APIs with popular inference frameworks. In the following, we show example commands to launch OpenAI-Compatible API servers for Qwen3.6 models.
[!Important] Inference efficiency and throughput vary significantly across frameworks. We recommend using the latest framework versions to ensure optimal performance and compatibility. For production workloads or high-throughput scenarios, dedicated serving engines such as SGLang, KTransformers or vLLM are strongly recommended.
[!Important] The model has a default context length of 262,144 tokens. If you encounter out-of-memory (OOM) errors, consider reducing the context window. However, because Qwen3.6 leverages extended context for complex tasks, we advise maintaining a context length of at least 128K tokens to preserve thinking capabilities.
SGLang is a fast serving framework for large language models and vision language models.
sglang>=0.5.10 is recommended for Qwen3.6, which can be installed using the following command in a fresh environment:
shell
uv pip install sglang[all]
See its documentation for more details.
The following will create API endpoints at http://localhost:8000/v1:
Standard Version: The following command can be used to create an API endpoint with maximum context length 262,144 tokens using tensor parallel on 8 GPUs.
shell
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tp-size 8 --mem-fraction-static 0.8 --context-length 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3
Tool Use: To support tool use, you can use the following command.
shell
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tp-size 8 --mem-fraction-static 0.8 --context-length 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
Multi-Token Prediction (MTP): The following command is recommended for MTP:
shell
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tp-size 8 --mem-fraction-static 0.8 --context-length 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --speculative-algo NEXTN --speculative-num-steps 3 --speculative-eagle-topk 1 --speculative-num-draft-tokens 4
For detailed deployment guide, see the SGLang Qwen3.5 Cookbook.
vLLM is a high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs.
vllm>=0.19.0 is recommended for Qwen3.6, which can be installed using the following command in a fresh environment:
shell
uv pip install vllm --torch-backend=auto
See its documentation for more details.
The following will create API endpoints at http://localhost:8000/v1:
Standard Version: The following command can be used to create an API endpoint with maximum context length 262,144 tokens using tensor parallel on 8 GPUs.
shell
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3
Tool Call: To support tool use, you can use the following command.
shell
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
Multi-Token Prediction (MTP): The following command is recommended for MTP:
shell
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --speculative-config '{"method":"qwen3_next_mtp","num_speculative_tokens":2}'
Text-Only: The following command skips the vision encoder and multimodal profiling to free up memory for additional KV cache:
shell
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --language-model-only
For detailed deployment guide, see the vLLM Qwen3.5 Recipe.
KTransformers is a flexible framework for experiencing cutting-edge LLM inference optimizations with CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. For running Qwen3.6 with KTransformers, see the KTransformers Deployment Guide.
Hugging Face Transformers contains a lightweight server which can be used for quick testing and moderate load deployment.
The latest transformers is required for Qwen3.6:
shell
pip install "transformers[serving]"
See its documentation for more details. Please also make sure torchvision and pillow are installed.
Then, run transformers serve to launch a server with API endpoints at http://localhost:8000/v1; it will place the model on accelerators if available:
shell
transformers serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B --port 8000 --continuous-batching
The chat completions API is accessible via standard HTTP requests or OpenAI SDKs. Here, we show examples using the OpenAI Python SDK.
Before starting, make sure it is installed and the API key and the API base URL is configured, e.g.:
shell
pip install -U openai# Set the following accordinglyexport OPENAI_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000/v1"export OPENAI_API_KEY="EMPTY"
[!Tip] We recommend using the following set of sampling parameters for generation
- Thinking mode for general tasks:
temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0- Thinking mode for precise coding tasks (e.g. WebDev):
temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0- Instruct (or non-thinking) mode:
temperature=0.7, top_p=0.80, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0Please note that the support for sampling parameters varies according to inference frameworks.
[!Important] Qwen3.6 models operate in thinking mode by default, generating thinking content signified by
<think>\n...</think>\n\nbefore producing the final responses. To disable thinking content and obtain direct response, refer to the examples here.
python
from openai import OpenAI# Configured by environment variablesclient = OpenAI()messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Type \"I love Qwen3.6\" backwards"},]chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",messages=messages,max_tokens=81920,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,presence_penalty=1.5,extra_body={"top_k": 20,},)print("Chat response:", chat_response)
python
from openai import OpenAI# Configured by environment variablesclient = OpenAI()messages = [{"role": "user","content": [{"type": "image_url","image_url": {"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/CI_Demo/mathv-1327.jpg"}},{"type": "text","text": "The centres of the four illustrated circles are in the corners of the square. The two big circles touch each other and also the two little circles. With which factor do you have to multiply the radii of the little circles to obtain the radius of the big circles?\nChoices:\n(A) $\\frac{2}{9}$\n(B) $\\sqrt{5}$\n(C) $0.8 \\cdot \\pi$\n(D) 2.5\n(E) $1+\\sqrt{2}$"}]}]chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",messages=messages,max_tokens=81920,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,presence_penalty=1.5,extra_body={"top_k": 20,},)print("Chat response:", chat_response)
python
from openai import OpenAI# Configured by environment variablesclient = OpenAI()messages = [{"role": "user","content": [{"type": "video_url","video_url": {"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.5/demo/video/N1cdUjctpG8.mp4"}},{"type": "text","text": "How many porcelain jars were discovered in the niches located in the primary chamber of the tomb?"}]}]# When vLLM is launched with `--media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"num_frames": -1}}'`,# video frame sampling can be configured via `extra_body` (e.g., by setting `fps`).# This feature is currently supported only in vLLM.## By default, `fps=2` and `do_sample_frames=True`.# With `do_sample_frames=True`, you can customize the `fps` value to set your desired video sampling rate.chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",messages=messages,max_tokens=81920,temperature=1.0,top_p=0.95,presence_penalty=1.5,extra_body={"top_k": 20,"mm_processor_kwargs": {"fps": 2, "do_sample_frames": True},},)print("Chat response:", chat_response)
[!Important] Qwen3.6 does not officially support the soft switch of Qwen3, i.e.,
/thinkand/nothink.
Qwen3.6 will think by default before response. You can obtain direct response from the model without thinking by configuring the API parameters. For example,
python
from openai import OpenAI# Configured by environment variablesclient = OpenAI()messages = [{"role": "user","content": [{"type": "image_url","image_url": {"url": "https://qianwen-res.oss-accelerate.aliyuncs.com/Qwen3.6/demo/RealWorld/RealWorld-04.png"}},{"type": "text","text": "Where is this?"}]}]chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",messages=messages,max_tokens=32768,temperature=0.7,top_p=0.8,presence_penalty=1.5,extra_body={"top_k": 20,"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False},},)print("Chat response:", chat_response)
[!Note] If you are using APIs from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, in addition to changing
model, please use"enable_thinking": Falseinstead of"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": False}.
By default, only the thinking blocks generated in handling the latest user message is retained, resulting in a pattern commonly as interleaved thinking.
Qwen3.6 has been additionally trained to preserve and leverage thinking traces from historical messages.
You can enable this behavior by setting the preserve_thinking option:
python
from openai import OpenAI# Configured by environment variablesclient = OpenAI()messages = [...]chat_response = client.chat.completions.create(model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B",messages=messages,max_tokens=32768,temperature=0.7,top_p=0.8,presence_penalty=1.5,extra_body={"top_k": 20,"chat_template_kwargs": {"preserve_thinking": True},},)print("Chat response:", chat_response)
[!Note] If you are using APIs from Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, in addition to changing
model, please use"preserve_thinking": Trueinstead of"chat_template_kwargs": {"preserve_thinking": False}.
This capability is particularly beneficial for agent scenarios, where maintaining full reasoning context can enhance decision consistency and, in many cases, reduce overall token consumption by minimizing redundant reasoning. Additionally, it can improve KV cache utilization, optimizing inference efficiency in both thinking and non-thinking modes.
Qwen3.6 excels in tool calling capabilities.
We recommend using Qwen-Agent to quickly build Agent applications with Qwen3.6.
To define the available tools, you can use the MCP configuration file, use the integrated tool of Qwen-Agent, or integrate other tools by yourself.
python
import osfrom qwen_agent.agents import Assistant# Define LLM# Using Alibaba Cloud Model Studiollm_cfg = {# Use the OpenAI-compatible model service provided by DashScope:'model': 'Qwen3.6-35B-A3B','model_type': 'qwenvl_oai','model_server': 'https://dashscope.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1','api_key': os.getenv('DASHSCOPE_API_KEY'),'generate_cfg': {'use_raw_api': True,# When using Dash Scope OAI API, pass the parameter of whether to enable thinking mode in this way'extra_body': {'enable_thinking': True,'preserve_thinking': True,},},}# Using OpenAI-compatible API endpoint.# functionality of the deployment frameworks and let Qwen-Agent automate the related operations.## llm_cfg = {# # Use your own model service compatible with OpenAI API by vLLM/SGLang:# 'model': 'Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B',# 'model_type': 'qwenvl_oai',# 'model_server': 'http://localhost:8000/v1', # api_base# 'api_key': 'EMPTY',## 'generate_cfg': {# 'use_raw_api': True,# # When using vLLM/SGLang OAI API, pass the parameter of whether to enable thinking mode in this way# 'extra_body': {# 'chat_template_kwargs': {'enable_thinking': True, 'preserve_thinking': True}# },# },# }# Define Toolstools = [{'mcpServers': { # You can specify the MCP configuration file"filesystem": {"command": "npx","args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/Users/xxxx/Desktop"]}}}]# Define Agentbot = Assistant(llm=llm_cfg, function_list=tools)# Streaming generationmessages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Help me organize my desktop.'}]for responses in bot.run(messages=messages):passprint(responses)# Streaming generationmessages = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Develop a dog website and save it on the desktop'}]for responses in bot.run(messages=messages):passprint(responses)
Qwen Code is an open-source AI agent for the terminal, optimized for Qwen models. It helps you understand large codebases, automate tedious work, and ship faster.
For more information, please refer to Qwen Code.
Qwen3.6 natively supports context lengths of up to 262,144 tokens. For long-horizon tasks where the total length (including both input and output) exceeds this limit, we recommend using RoPE scaling techniques to handle long texts effectively., e.g., YaRN.
YaRN is currently supported by several inference frameworks, e.g., transformers, vllm, ktransformers and sglang.
In general, there are two approaches to enabling YaRN for supported frameworks:
Modifying the model configuration file:
In the config.json file, change the rope_parameters fields in text_config to:
json
{"mrope_interleaved": true,"mrope_section": [11,11,10],"rope_type": "yarn","rope_theta": 10000000,"partial_rotary_factor": 0.25,"factor": 4.0,"original_max_position_embeddings": 262144,}
Passing command line arguments:
For vllm, you can use
shell
VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1 vllm serve ... --hf-overrides '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --max-model-len 1010000
For sglang and ktransformers, you can use
shell
SGLANG_ALLOW_OVERWRITE_LONGER_CONTEXT_LEN=1 python -m sglang.launch_server ... --json-model-override-args '{"text_config": {"rope_parameters": {"mrope_interleaved": true, "mrope_section": [11, 11, 10], "rope_type": "yarn", "rope_theta": 10000000, "partial_rotary_factor": 0.25, "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": 262144}}}' --context-length 1010000
[!NOTE] All the notable open-source frameworks implement static YaRN, which means the scaling factor remains constant regardless of input length, potentially impacting performance on shorter texts. We advise modifying the
rope_parametersconfiguration only when processing long contexts is required. It is also recommended to modify thefactoras needed. For example, if the typical context length for your application is 524,288 tokens, it would be better to setfactoras 2.0.
To achieve optimal performance, we recommend the following settings:
Sampling Parameters:
temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
bibtex
@misc{qwen36_35b_a3b,title = {{Qwen3.6-35B-A3B}: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All},url = {https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b},author = {{Qwen Team}},month = {April},year = {2026}}
repetition_penalty=1.0temperature=0.7, top_p=0.80, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0presence_penalty parameter between 0 and 2 to reduce endless repetitions. However, using a higher value may occasionally result in language mixing and a slight decrease in model performance.Adequate Output Length: We recommend using an output length of 32,768 tokens for most queries. For benchmarking on highly complex problems, such as those found in math and programming competitions, we suggest setting the max output length to 81,920 tokens. This provides the model with sufficient space to generate detailed and comprehensive responses, thereby enhancing its overall performance.
Standardize Output Format: We recommend using prompts to standardize model outputs when benchmarking.
answer field with only the choice letter, e.g., "answer": "C"."Long Video Understanding: To optimize inference efficiency for plain text and images, the size parameter in the released video_preprocessor_config.json is conservatively configured. It is recommended to set the longest_edge parameter in the video_preprocessor_config file to 469,762,048 (corresponding to 224k video tokens) to enable higher frame-rate sampling for hour-scale videos and thereby achieve superior performance. For example,
json
{"longest_edge": 469762048, "shortest_edge": 4096}
Alternatively, override the default values via engine startup parameters. For implementation details, refer to: vLLM / SGLang.