Head-to-head comparison across 6benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
65
Qwen3.5-27B
63
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B #8 · Qwen3.5-27B #16
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Agentic
+4.5 difference
Coding
+9.0 difference
Reasoning
+0.4 difference
Knowledge
+1.0 difference
Multilingual
Inst. Following
+1.6 difference
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Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 65 versus 63. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72 against 63. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 49.4% to 41.6%. Qwen3.5-27B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 63. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 49.4% and 41.6%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 80.6. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72 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 reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.6 versus 60.2. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.1 versus 51.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 93.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B and Qwen3.5-27B are effectively tied for multilingual tasks here, both landing at 82.2 on average.
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