o3-pro 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

o3-pro· Qwen3.5-27B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-pro only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 67. 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 49.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 44% to 80.7%. o3-pro does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for o3-pro.

Operational tradeoffs

PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed27 t/sN/A
TTFT84.93sN/A
Context200K262K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmarko3-proQwen3.5-27B
Agentico3-pro wins
Terminal-Bench 2.069%41.6%
BrowseComp76%61%
OSWorld-Verified68%56.2%
tau2-bench79%
CodingQwen3.5-27B wins
HumanEval80%
LiveCodeBench44%80.7%
SWE-bench Pro55%
SWE-bench Verified72.4%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-27B wins
MMMU-Pro70%75%
OfficeQA Pro79%
Reasoningo3-pro wins
MuSR84%
BBH89%
LongBench v281%60.6%
MRCRv281%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-27B wins
MMLU88%
GPQA89%85.5%
SuperGPQA87%65.6%
HLE26%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA86%
MMLU-Pro86.1%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-27B wins
IFEval82%95%
MultilingualQwen3.5-27B wins
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX80%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202390%
AIME 202492%
AIME 202591%
HMMT Feb 202386%
HMMT Feb 202488%
HMMT Feb 202587%
BRUMO 202589%
MATH-50089%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B is ahead overall, 71 to 67. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 44% and 80.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 66.8. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 49.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 60.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

o3-pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.4 versus 51.6. 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, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75 versus 74.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, o3-pro or Qwen3.5-27B?

Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 81.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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