Particle AI Particle-1 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 1.5× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Particle-1 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
- Particle-1 is the newer model (released 2026-10-28).
| Particle-1 | Qwen3.6 35B A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Particle AI | Qwen |
| Released | 2026-10-28 | 2026-04-27 |
| Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.10 |
| Output / 1M | $1.00 | $0.90 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 | $0.025 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.438 | $0.30 |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 131K | 236K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 10 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $1.00 | $0.70 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.56% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Particle-1
$30.00 per month$1.00 per day
Qwen3.6 35B A3B
$19.50 per month$0.65 per day
Qwen3.6 35B A3B saves $10.50 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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