GLM-4.5-Air vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

GLM-4.5-Air· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air 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, 68 to 37. 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 coding, where it averages 72.6 against 22.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 15% to 74.6%.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-4.5-Air 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 128K for GLM-4.5-Air.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed106 t/sN/A
TTFT1.18sN/A
Context128K262K

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.

BenchmarkGLM-4.5-AirQwen3.5-35B-A3B
AgenticQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.028%40.5%
OSWorld-Verified28%54.5%
BrowseComp61%
tau2-bench81.2%
CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
HumanEval27%
SWE-bench Verified15%69.2%
LiveCodeBench15%74.6%
SWE-bench Pro14%
SWE-Rebench38.3%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMMU-Pro36%75.1%
OfficeQA Pro44%
ReasoningQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MuSR31%
BBH63%
LongBench v247%59%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMLU35%
GPQA34%84.2%
SuperGPQA32%63.4%
MMLU-Pro51%85.3%
HLE4%
FrontierScience37%
SimpleQA33%
Instruction Following
IFEval91.9%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202335%
AIME 202437%
AIME 202536%
HMMT Feb 202331%
HMMT Feb 202433%
HMMT Feb 202532%
BRUMO 202534%
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 68 to 37. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 15% and 74.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 31. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 22.9. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 44.1. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.5 versus 28. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GLM-4.5-Air or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 39.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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