o3-mini vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Treat this as a split decision. o3-mini makes more sense if instruction following is the priority; Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the better fit if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

o3-mini and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B finish on the same provisional overall score, so this is less about a single winner and more about where the edge shows up. The provisional headline says tie; the benchmark table is where the real choice happens.

o3-mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for o3-mini.