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Qwen3.5 35B A3B
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RANKED #172 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #240 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 6.3 · 268 VOICES ·
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The Qwen3.5 Series 35B-A3B is a native vision-language model designed with a hybrid architecture that integrates linear attention mechanisms and a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. Its overall...
HAPPY9.6
35 mentions
SAD5.4
18 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 252 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Qwen3.5 35B A3B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
35B total parameters with 3B active per token (MoE), a Q4 file is about 20 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM + 32 GB SYSTEM RAM
~$450Q3_K_M or Q4 with partial RAM offload, ~15 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$750 USEDQ4_K_M fully in VRAM, ~45 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3500Q8 or BF16, ~65 tok/s, 128k+ context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN QWEN3.5 35B A3B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Qwen3.5 35B A3B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTNvidia RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~11 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~3 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~28 MIN★★★★★ | ~9.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~17 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with Qwen3.5 35B A3B right now.
236 POSTS · 32 COMMENTS · DEV FORUMS · GITHUB · X · HACKER NEWS · LEMMY · REDDIT · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (5 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM REDDIT >
“Qwen3.5 35B A3B Uncensored Heretic Native MTP Preserved is Out Now With the Full 785 MTPs Preserved and Retained, Available in Safetensors, GGUFs, NVFP4, NVFP4 GGUFs and GPTQ-Int4 Formats!.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Qwen3.5 35B A3B.
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Grok 4.6> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-02-24 · 446 UPVOTESQwen3.5 Medium models out now!
Qwen3.5 Medium models out now!
- REDDIT · 2026-02-27 · 327 UPVOTESQwen3.5 Unsloth GGUFs Update!
Qwen3.5 Unsloth GGUFs Update!
- REDDIT · 2026-02-25 · 174 UPVOTESQwen3.5 Medium GGUFs hit 106K downloads in just 12 hours!
Qwen3.5 Medium GGUFs hit 106K downloads in just 12 hours!
- REDDIT · 2026-07-10 · 161 UPVOTESHas anyone created a "Local LLM Survival Kit"?
Has anyone created a "Local LLM Survival Kit"?
- REDDIT · 2026-03-02 · 102 UPVOTESQwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF is now the #3 trending model!
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF is now the #3 trending model!
- REDDIT · 2026-03-07 · 95 UPVOTESQwen3.5 27B vs 35B Unsloth quants - LiveCodeBench Evaluation Results
Qwen3.5 27B vs 35B Unsloth quants - LiveCodeBench Evaluation Results
- REDDIT · 2026-03-04 · 82 UPVOTESunsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF updated ~5h ago
unsloth/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF updated ~5h ago
- REDDIT · 2026-02-24 · 80 UPVOTESQwen just released Qwen 3.5 medium model Series: Qwen 3.5 Flash plus 3 more models
Qwen just released Qwen 3.5 medium model Series: Qwen 3.5 Flash plus 3 more models
- REDDIT · 2026-08-04 · 63 UPVOTESDeepseek V4 Flash 2-bit quant is the first model I can run locally that achieves 100% in this SQL benchmark
Deepseek V4 Flash 2-bit quant is the first model I can run locally that achieves 100% in this SQL benchmark
- REDDIT · 2026-03-25 · 58 UPVOTESOpen WebUI “terminal-aware” skills are scary powerful. I made a skill-building workflow that seems to work well for developing them.
Open WebUI “terminal-aware” skills are scary powerful. I made a skill-building workflow that seems to work well for developing them.
- REDDIT · 2026-05-26 · 57 UPVOTESQwen3.5 27B Uncensored Heretic Native MTP Preserved is Out Now With the Full 15 MTPs Preserved and Retained, Available in Safetensors,…
Qwen3.5 27B Uncensored Heretic Native MTP Preserved is Out Now With the Full 15 MTPs Preserved and Retained, Available in Safetensors, GGUFs, NVFP4, NVFP4 GGUFs and GPTQ-Int4 Formats!
- REDDIT · 2026-07-24 · 46 UPVOTESExtened garlic to run Qwen3.5 35B A3B float8 at 55 tok/s on RTX 5060 Ti
Extened garlic to run Qwen3.5 35B A3B float8 at 55 tok/s on RTX 5060 Ti