The closest alternative to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is Kimi K2 0905 — comparable intelligence (30.9 vs 30.7); for a cheaper option, Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) runs Free/M vs $0.140/M; for more speed, gpt-oss-120b (free) hits 554 t/s; and the best open-weight substitute is MiniMax M3.
Kimi K2 0905 is the closest alternative to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, with an Intelligence Index of 30.9 (Qwen3.5-35B-A3B scores 30.7) at $0.600 per million input tokens.
Yes — Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) costs Free per million input tokens versus $0.140 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, while staying within ~8 points of its Intelligence Index.
MiniMax M3 is the strongest open-weight alternative to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable, scoring 54.7 on intelligence.