Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
62
Qwen3.5-27B
63
Verified leaderboard positions: Hy3 Preview unranked · Qwen3.5-27B #16
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.
Agentic
+2.8 difference
Coding
+3.0 difference
Knowledge
+33.9 difference
Inst. Following
+31.9 difference
Hy3 Preview
Qwen3.5-27B
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256K
262K
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.
Qwen3.5-27B finishes one point ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 63 to 62. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Qwen3.5-27B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 80.6 against 46.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 54.4% to 41.6%. Hy3 Preview does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Hy3 Preview.
Qwen3.5-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 63 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 54.4% and 41.6%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 46.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63 versus 60. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Hy3 Preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.4 versus 51.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 63.1. Hy3 Preview stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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