GPT-4 Turbo 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

GPT-4 Turbo· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4 Turbo only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or 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 47. 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 15.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 5% to 69.2%. GPT-4 Turbo does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4 Turbo 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 GPT-4 Turbo.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed30 t/sN/A
TTFT2.84sN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboQwen3.5-35B-A3B
AgenticQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.042%40.5%
BrowseComp54%61%
OSWorld-Verified41%54.5%
tau2-bench81.2%
CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
HumanEval52%
SWE-bench Verified5%69.2%
LiveCodeBench23%74.6%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMMU-Pro53%75.1%
OfficeQA Pro58%
ReasoningGPT-4 Turbo wins
MuSR56%
BBH75%
LongBench v262%59%
MRCRv262%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMLU60%
GPQA60%84.2%
SuperGPQA58%63.4%
MMLU-Pro51%85.3%
FrontierScience52%
SimpleQA58%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
IFEval80%91.9%
MultilingualQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMLU-ProX65%81%
Mathematics
AIME 202360%
AIME 202462%
AIME 202561%
HMMT Feb 202356%
HMMT Feb 202458%
HMMT Feb 202557%
BRUMO 202559%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 68 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 5% and 69.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 54.9. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 15.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.5 versus 44.7. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 55.3. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 80. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-4 Turbo or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 65. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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