Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs Qwen3.5 397B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B· Qwen3.5 397B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5 397B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 40.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 78.9% to 39%. Qwen3.5 397B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen3.5 397B 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. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A96 t/s
TTFTN/A2.44s
Context262K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkQwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen3.5 397B
AgenticQwen3.5 397B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.049.4%58%
BrowseComp63.8%62%
OSWorld-Verified58%52%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
SWE-bench Verified72%42%
LiveCodeBench78.9%39%
HumanEval75%
SWE-bench Pro42%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%56%
OfficeQA Pro68%
ReasoningQwen3.5 397B wins
LongBench v260.2%72%
MuSR78%
BBH82%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU-Pro86.7%73%
SuperGPQA67.1%80%
GPQA86.6%82%
MMLU83%
HLE10%
FrontierScience71%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
IFEval93.4%82%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU-ProX82.2%77%
MGSM82%
Mathematics
AIME 202383%
AIME 202485%
AIME 202584%
HMMT Feb 202379%
HMMT Feb 202481%
HMMT Feb 202580%
BRUMO 202582%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (8)

Which is better, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 78.9% and 39%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 61. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 40.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.3 versus 60.2. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.9 versus 56. 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, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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