Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DBRX Instruct
41
0/8 categoriesQwen3.5-35B-A3B
67
Winner · 6/8 categoriesDBRX Instruct· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct 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 41. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 75.1 against 35.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 36% to 75.1%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DBRX Instruct 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 32K for DBRX Instruct.
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| Benchmark | DBRX Instruct | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 41% | 40.5% |
| BrowseComp | 31% | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 29% | 54.5% |
| tau2-bench | — | 81.2% |
| CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 70.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 48% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 69.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 74.6% |
| Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 36% | 75.1% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 35% | — |
| ReasoningQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| LongBench v2 | 36% | 59% |
| MRCRv2 | 37% | — |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMLU | 73.7% | — |
| FrontierScience | 52% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.3% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 63.4% |
| GPQA | — | 84.2% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 91.9% |
| MultilingualQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 46% | 81% |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 67 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 36% and 75.1%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 52. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 48. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 36.5. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.5 versus 34.3. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 46. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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