Saba vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Saba at $0.230 in and $0.690 out and Qwen3.6 35B A3B at $0.161 in and $1.15 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Saba

Mistral AI

0.17¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $0.690 out / 1M

33K context · released February 2025

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen

0.17¢

for a client proposal

$0.161 in · $1.15 out / 1M

262K context · released 3 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.34¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Qwen3.6 35B A3B at $0.161 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Saba at $0.690 per million tokens.
Largest context: Qwen3.6 35B A3B at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Saba

0.08¢

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

0.09¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Saba

0.17¢

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

0.17¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Saba

needs 155K ctx

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

3¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Saba

needs 35K ctx

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

0.68¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Saba

needs 250K ctx

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

4.4¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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Saba

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

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Pricing

Saba

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Input / 1M tokens

$0.230

$0.161

Output / 1M tokens

$0.690

$1.15

Cached input / 1M

$0.023

$0.058

Specs

Saba

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Provider

Mistral AI

Qwen

Released

February 2025

3 months ago

Context window

33K

262K

Max output

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262K

Input

Text and Files

Text, Images, and Video

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-09-30

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Saba

Mistral AI

0.08¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

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Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Qwen

0.09¢

for this task

36% input · 64% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.17¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,937 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Qwen3.6 35B A3B has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, Saba is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.17¢.

If you want to watch the model think, Qwen3.6 35B A3B shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Saba or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Saba at 0.17¢; Qwen3.6 35B A3B at 0.17¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Saba and Qwen3.6 35B A3B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.34¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.34¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.