Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Laguna M.1
46
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
57
Verified leaderboard positions: Laguna M.1 unranked · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #18
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Laguna M.1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+9.9 difference
Coding
+2.0 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 its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 57 to 46. 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 40.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 72.5% to 69.2%.
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, 57 to 46. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 72.5% and 69.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 58.4 versus 56.4. 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 40.7. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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