Moonshot v1 vs Qwen3.5-27B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Moonshot v1· Qwen3.5-27B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Moonshot v1 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 70 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-27B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 77.6 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 21% to 80.7%.

Qwen3.5-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Moonshot v1 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for Moonshot v1.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkMoonshot v1Qwen3.5-27B
AgenticQwen3.5-27B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.039%41.6%
BrowseComp49%61%
OSWorld-Verified56.2%
tau2-bench79%
CodingQwen3.5-27B wins
HumanEval45%
SWE-bench Verified34%72.4%
LiveCodeBench21%80.7%
SWE-bench Pro30%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-27B wins
MMMU-Pro49%75%
OfficeQA Pro57%
ReasoningQwen3.5-27B wins
MuSR49%
BBH73%
LongBench v258%60.6%
MRCRv256%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-27B wins
MMLU53%
GPQA52%85.5%
SuperGPQA50%65.6%
MMLU-Pro64%86.1%
HLE5%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA51%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-27B wins
IFEval77%95%
MultilingualQwen3.5-27B wins
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202353%
AIME 202455%
AIME 202554%
HMMT Feb 202349%
HMMT Feb 202451%
HMMT Feb 202550%
BRUMO 202552%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B is ahead overall, 70 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 21% and 80.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 42.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 27.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.6 versus 54.9. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.6 versus 42.8. Inside this category, BrowseComp is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Moonshot v1 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 69.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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