Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Laguna M.1
51
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
55
Verified leaderboard positions: Laguna M.1 unranked · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #26
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Laguna M.1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+4.8 difference
Coding
+0.2 difference
Laguna M.1
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
$0 / $0
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
131K
262K
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Laguna M.1 only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 55 to 51. 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 agentic, where it averages 50.6 against 45.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 74.6% to 69.2%. Laguna M.1 does hit back in coding, 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 131K for Laguna M.1.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 55 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 74.6% and 69.2%.
Laguna M.1 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 58.6 versus 58.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 50.6 versus 45.8. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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