HEAD TO HEAD

Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Step 2

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

VALUE FOR MONEY

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 2STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Qwen3.6 35B A3B x	Step 2 x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	7.5
VOICES	560	3,676
RANK	#53	#7
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.10 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$0.90 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Sometimes makes things up

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.

HEAD TO HEAD

Community vibe score against API price per 1M tokens. Up and left wins: loved and cheap.

NOT ON THE CHART (NO PUBLIC API PRICE):Step 2STILL IN THE TABLE BELOW. THE CHART ONLY PLOTS MODELS WITH A KNOWN PRICE PER 1M TOKENS.

Metric	Qwen3.6 35B A3B x	Step 2 x
VIBE SCORE	6.8	7.5
VOICES	560	3,676
RANK	#53	#7
CATEGORY	Multimodal	Text
OPEN/CLOSED	OPEN WEIGHTS	CLOSED
PRICE IN (per 1M)	$0.10 / 1M	N/A
PRICE OUT (per 1M)	$0.90 / 1M	N/A
THE CROWD LOVES	Popular for coding help	Popular for coding help
THE CROWD GRUMBLES	Refuses or lectures more than people like	Sometimes makes things up

Fair fights only: chat and coding models compare with each other.