Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max)
77
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
68
Verified leaderboard positions: DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) #12 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #20
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+11.8 difference
Coding
+6.8 difference
Knowledge
+0.5 difference
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max)
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$0.14 / $0.28
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1M
262K
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 77 to 68. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 63.3 against 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 34.8% to 21.4%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 77 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 34.8% and 21.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.5 versus 60. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.7 versus 66.9. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (Max) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.3 versus 51.5. Inside this category, Toolathlon is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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