Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen2.5-VL-32B
~50
0/8 categoriesQwen3.5-35B-A3B
67
Winner · 2/8 categoriesQwen2.5-VL-32B· Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 50. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 75.1 against 49.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 46% to 84.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen2.5-VL-32B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.
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| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-VL-32B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 40.5% |
| BrowseComp | — | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 54.5% |
| tau2-bench | — | 81.2% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | 91.5% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 69.2% |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 74.6% |
| Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 49.5% | 75.1% |
| Reasoning | ||
| LongBench v2 | — | 59% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| GPQA | 46% | 84.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 68.8% | 85.3% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 63.4% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 91.9% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | — | 81% |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 67 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 46% and 84.2%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 60.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 49.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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