Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Hy3 Preview
62
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
67
Verified leaderboard positions: Hy3 Preview unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #20
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.
Agentic
+2.9 difference
Coding
+6.9 difference
Knowledge
+13.8 difference
Hy3 Preview
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
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256K
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Hy3 Preview only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 67 to 62. 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 46.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 25.5% to 21.4%. Hy3 Preview does hit back in agentic, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Hy3 Preview.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 67 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 25.5% and 21.4%.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.5 versus 46.7. Inside this category, HLE 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 60. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 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 51.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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