1-bit Bonsai 4B vs Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

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 4B· Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 4B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 71.5 against 28.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 89%.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 4B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 4BQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp78%
OSWorld-Verified70%
Coding
HumanEval83%
SWE-bench Verified60%
LiveCodeBench60%
SWE-bench Pro65%
SWE-Rebench59.9%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro64%
OfficeQA Pro79%
ReasoningQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
MuSR41.4%85%
BBH91%
LongBench v280%
MRCRv282%
KnowledgeQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
GPQA28.7%89%
MMLU91%
SuperGPQA87%
MMLU-Pro81%
HLE29%
FrontierScience81%
SimpleQA87%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
IFEval69.6%89%
Multilingual
MGSM91%
MMLU-ProX86%
MathematicsQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
MATH-50065.8%93%
AIME 202393%
AIME 202495%
AIME 202594%
HMMT Feb 202389%
HMMT Feb 202491%
HMMT Feb 202590%
BRUMO 202592%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 77 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 89%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 65.8. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 41.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 69.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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