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Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

VS
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

GLM-5

✍️ Analysis by:the whichllmmodel Editorial Team|📅 Updated: June 2026

Decision Recommendation

👑 Editorial Verdict: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B strictly dominates GLM-5 across all major dimensions. It is not only more cost-effective (blended cost of $0.56 vs $1.55 per 1M tokens) but also delivers superior coding accuracy (49.5% vs 0% on SWE-bench) and faster generation speeds (128 tps vs 0 tps). Unless you have platform lock-in, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is the clear and optimal choice for all development workloads.

Model Specs

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)Winner (+)
49.5%
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
86%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)2.8x cheaper
$0.56Input: $0.25 | Output: $1.50
Speed
128 tps
Context WindowLarger
1M tokens
Model Specs

GLM-5

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
86%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
$1.55Input: $1.00 | Output: $3.20
Speed
N/A
Context Window
204.8k tokens

Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is cheaper than GLM-5. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has a blended cost of $0.56/1M tokens, which is about 2.8x cheaper than GLM-5 at $1.55/1M tokens.

Speed data is not available for GLM-5, while Qwen3.6-35B-A3B generates 128 tokens per second.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is better for coding tasks. It scores 49.5% on coding evaluations (swe-bench-pro) compared to GLM-5 which scores N/A.

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