Side-by-side comparison of Phi-4 (Microsoft · USA) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Phi-4 is rated EU-ready; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is conditional. They part ways on licence: Phi-4 is "MIT", Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready MIT-licensed 14B from Microsoft Research. Heavy use of synthetic training data is disclosed; English-primary (thin multilingual coverage). Strongest small-model option for permissive-licence EU deployments. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ships under Apache 2.0 with no use restrictions, making self-hosted commercial deployment viable. However, opaque training-data disclosure and Chinese origin create EU AI Act Art. 53 transparency and data-transfer risks that deployers should document before placing personal data into prompts. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China (Hangzhou) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 10/100 | 44/100 |
| Speed | 29 tok/s | 238 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.22/M | $0.84/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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