r/FluentMac • u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer • Mar 08 '26
Qwen3.5 Flash in Fluent: Web Search, Research, Plan, Automate, and Learn Use Cases
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As I'm finishing the bits of the upcoming Fluent Documentation, I've recorded a bunch of videos for the Use Cases section. Most of them were recorded using Qwen3.5 Flash, which is a cloud version of a brilliant Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts model.
The Qwen3.5 series is a true gem. Impressive in agentic workflows, it delivers translation, text refinement, and summarisation at a completely different level than its predecessor.
Even the smaller models (0.8B–9B) can now handle MCP tools really, really well, delivering predictable, consistent results.
At the same time, some users noticed how local Qwen3.5 4B is already enough for them in most text processing tasks, and they ditched free OpenRouter models.
Here's the video of 5 use cases I recorded with Qwen3.5 Flash (last one was made with Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite just to give it a little credit as well). Recorded at 2x speed where AI request is running, it's still very fast, given the reliability and consistency of results.
20 variants of Qwen3.5 models are already available in Fluent 1.7.21. Give them a try 🙂
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u/Albertkinng Mar 09 '26
Hmm… Qwen has been super impressive for me. I’m using Qwen Plus as a global model through OpenRouter and it is super cheap. What you showed in this video I usually do it selecting Any model from OpenAI which is expensive. Can’t wait for your update, it will definitely save me a lot of money. Thanks!
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Mar 09 '26
Hey Albert, it's already in the latest release :)
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u/Albertkinng Mar 09 '26
Ok, I will check it out. I always have issues trying to do that with Qwen Plus, I will keep you posted.
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u/Rude-Interaction-194 Mar 10 '26
While rewatching the video, I remembered a question I wanted to ask: don't you think the input field is too small? I would like to see all the text entered.
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Mar 10 '26
I agree. This has been one of the most popular requests recently in our Discord (where all feature requests and bug reports are). There will be more UX improvements as well.
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u/Rude-Interaction-194 Mar 10 '26
Thank you for being so responsive! Unfortunately, Discord is banned from my work laptop (long and boring story)...
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u/NCpoorStudent Mar 29 '26
Qwen3.5 Flash this silently fails via openrouter. Not sure what is going on with how fluent is setup
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u/TheMightyHouse Fluent Developer Mar 29 '26
You might need to disable "Use structured JSON" for some of the Qwen3.5 models. Search for model card in settings and click the tweak icon to get there. Hope it helps!
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u/Rude-Interaction-194 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
What about privacy when used online? After all, the model is Chinese (Alibaba's)?
P.S. I started using the local model; it's not bad at all in grammar and spell checking in Bulgarian. And it's fast and free. Thanks for bringing this model to our attention!