o1-preview vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

o1-preview· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 67. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 85.4 against 59. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 77% to 40.5%. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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 200K for o1-preview.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K262K

Decision framing

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Benchmarko1-previewQwen3.5-35B-A3B
Agentico1-preview wins
Terminal-Bench 2.077%40.5%
BrowseComp79%61%
OSWorld-Verified71%54.5%
tau2-bench81.2%
CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified65%69.2%
LiveCodeBench60%74.6%
SWE-bench Pro69%
Multimodal & Groundedo1-preview wins
MMMU-Pro72%75.1%
OfficeQA Pro80%
Reasoningo1-preview wins
MuSR86%
BBH93%
LongBench v287%59%
MRCRv283%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
MMLU92%
GPQA90%84.2%
SuperGPQA88%63.4%
MMLU-Pro80%85.3%
HLE32%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA88%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins
IFEval88%91.9%
Multilingualo1-preview wins
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX86%81%
Mathematics
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202595%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202591%
BRUMO 202593%
MATH-50094%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 72 to 67. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 77% and 40.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 72.7. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 64.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 85.4 versus 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

o1-preview has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.4 versus 50.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 versus 75.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 88. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o1-preview or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

o1-preview has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 versus 81. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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