DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 71 versus 68. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 50.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 45% to 78.9%. DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking).

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
Terminal-Bench 2.071%49.4%
BrowseComp70%63.8%
OSWorld-Verified67%58%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval79%
SWE-bench Verified48%72%
LiveCodeBench45%78.9%
SWE-bench Pro58%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro66%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro77%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR81%
BBH86%
LongBench v278%60.2%
MRCRv278%
ARC-AGI-24%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU87%
GPQA85%86.6%
SuperGPQA83%67.1%
MMLU-Pro73%86.7%
HLE22%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA83%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval85%93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202383%
HMMT Feb 202485%
HMMT Feb 202584%
BRUMO 202586%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 45% and 78.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 65.9. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 50.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 60.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.4 versus 56. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 71. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 85. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 80.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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