Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
62
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
Verified leaderboard positions: Hy3 Preview unranked · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #18
Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Agentic
+3.8 difference
Coding
+1.6 difference
Knowledge
+32.6 difference
Inst. Following
+28.8 difference
Hy3 Preview
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Pick Hy3 Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Hy3 Preview is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 62 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Hy3 Preview's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 54.4 against 50.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 54.4% to 40.5%. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Hy3 Preview.
Hy3 Preview is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 62 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 54.4% and 40.5%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 46.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Hy3 Preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60 versus 58.4. 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 50.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 63.1. Hy3 Preview stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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