Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
o1
59
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
64
Verified leaderboard positions: o1 unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #13
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Knowledge
+15.2 difference
o1
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
$15 / $60
N/A
98 t/s
N/A
32.29s
N/A
200K
262K
Pick Qwen3.6-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 64 to 59. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for o1.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 64 to 59. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 75.7% and 86%.
o1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.7 versus 60.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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