Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
1-bit Bonsai 8B
~50
0/8 categoriesQwen3.5-35B-A3B
67
Winner · 3/8 categories1-bit Bonsai 8B· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 79.3 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 84.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while 1-bit Bonsai 8B 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. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.
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| Benchmark | 1-bit Bonsai 8B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 40.5% |
| BrowseComp | — | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 54.5% |
| tau2-bench | — | 81.2% |
| Coding | ||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 69.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 74.6% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | — | 75.1% |
| ReasoningQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MuSR | 50% | — |
| LongBench v2 | — | 59% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| GPQA | 30% | 84.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.3% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 63.4% |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| IFEval | 79.8% | 91.9% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 81% |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | 66% | — |
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 67 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 84.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 50. 1-bit Bonsai 8B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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