1-bit Bonsai 8B 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 8B· Qwen3 235B 2507

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B 2507 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

1-bit Bonsai 8B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 50 versus 48. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

1-bit Bonsai 8B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 66 against 55.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 77.5%. Qwen3 235B 2507 does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3 235B 2507 gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context64K128K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 8BQwen3 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%
Reasoning1-bit Bonsai 8B wins
MuSR50%35%
BBH60%
LongBench v252%
MRCRv252%
KnowledgeQwen3 235B 2507 wins
GPQA30%77.5%
MMLU39%
SuperGPQA62.6%
MMLU-Pro83%
FrontierScience39%
SimpleQA54.3%
Instruction FollowingQwen3 235B 2507 wins
IFEval79.8%88.7%
Multilingual
MGSM63%
MMLU-ProX79.4%
Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 8B wins
MATH-50066%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 8B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

1-bit Bonsai 8B is ahead overall, 50 to 48. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 77.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 55.7. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 50 versus 47.5. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3 235B 2507?

Qwen3 235B 2507 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 88.7 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.