1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs Qwen3 235B 2507

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· Qwen3 235B 2507

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3 235B 2507 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3 235B 2507 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3 235B 2507's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 63.8 against 20.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 20.7% to 77.5%.

Qwen3 235B 2507 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BQwen3 235B 2507
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.033%
BrowseComp40%
OSWorld-Verified30%
Coding
HumanEval31%
SWE-bench Verified15%
LiveCodeBench51.8%
SWE-bench Pro19%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro38%
OfficeQA Pro46%
ReasoningQwen3 235B 2507 wins
MuSR45.1%35%
BBH60%
LongBench v252%
MRCRv252%
KnowledgeQwen3 235B 2507 wins
GPQA20.7%77.5%
MMLU39%
SuperGPQA62.6%
MMLU-Pro83%
FrontierScience39%
SimpleQA54.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3 235B 2507 wins
IFEval63%88.7%
Multilingual
MGSM63%
MMLU-ProX79.4%
MathematicsQwen3 235B 2507 wins
MATH-50034.4%57%
AIME 202339%
AIME 202441%
AIME 202570.3%
HMMT Feb 202335%
HMMT Feb 202437%
HMMT Feb 202536%
BRUMO 202538%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 is ahead overall, 48 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 20.7% and 77.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 55.7 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 47.5 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88.7 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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