Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
DeepSeek V4 Flash
59
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
68
Verified leaderboard positions: DeepSeek V4 Flash #23 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #20
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V4 Flash only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Agentic
+2.4 difference
Coding
+9.8 difference
Knowledge
+15.3 difference
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$0.14 / $0.28
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1M
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V4 Flash only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 1M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 68 to 59. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 60.5 against 45.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 55.2% to 80.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DeepSeek V4 Flash 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. DeepSeek V4 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 68 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 55.2% and 80.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.5 versus 45.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 57.1. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.5 versus 49.1. Inside this category, Toolathlon is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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