1-bit Bonsai 8B vs Qwen3.5 397B

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· Qwen3.5 397B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.5 397B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 61 against 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 82%.

Qwen3.5 397B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A96 t/s
TTFTN/A2.44s
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 8BQwen3.5 397B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.058%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified52%
Coding
HumanEval75%
SWE-bench Verified42%
LiveCodeBench39%
SWE-bench Pro42%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro56%
OfficeQA Pro68%
ReasoningQwen3.5 397B wins
MuSR50%78%
BBH82%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeQwen3.5 397B wins
GPQA30%82%
MMLU83%
SuperGPQA80%
MMLU-Pro73%
HLE10%
FrontierScience71%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5 397B wins
IFEval79.8%82%
Multilingual
MGSM82%
MMLU-ProX77%
MathematicsQwen3.5 397B wins
MATH-50066%81%
AIME 202383%
AIME 202485%
AIME 202584%
HMMT Feb 202379%
HMMT Feb 202481%
HMMT Feb 202580%
BRUMO 202582%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 64 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 82%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 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 Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 66. 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 Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.3 versus 50. 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 Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 79.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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