Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Ornith-1.0-9B
52
Qwen3.5-27B
61
Verified leaderboard positions: Ornith-1.0-9B unranked · Qwen3.5-27B #23
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+8.5 difference
Coding
+6.4 difference
Ornith-1.0-9B
Qwen3.5-27B
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Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 61 to 52. 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 agentic, where it averages 51.6 against 43.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 69.4% to 72.4%. Ornith-1.0-9B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 61 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 69.4% and 72.4%.
Ornith-1.0-9B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 69.4 versus 63. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.6 versus 43.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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