Side-by-side comparison of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) and Step-3.7-Flash (StepFun) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is rated conditional; Step-3.7-Flash is conditional. They part ways on origin: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is "China (Hangzhou)", Step-3.7-Flash is "China (Shanghai)".
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| Verdict | 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. | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the Step-3.7-Flash weights ship without commercial restriction — a 198B / 11B-active vision-language MoE with a 256k-token context aimed at tool-heavy and agentic workflows. The remaining EU-readiness gaps are the entirely undisclosed training corpus and StepFun's Shanghai-based vendor jurisdiction; deploy on self-managed EU infrastructure and document the Art. 50 transparency story for any synthetic or biometric output. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China (Hangzhou) | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 44/100 | — |
| Speed | 238 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.84/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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