Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
68
Qwen3.6-27B
72
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B #6 · Qwen3.6-27B #10
Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+3.2 difference
Coding
+1.4 difference
Knowledge
+19.4 difference
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Qwen3.6-27B
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Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.6-27B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 72 to 68. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-27B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 59.3 against 56.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 49.4% to 59.3%. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 72 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 49.4% and 59.3%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 62.2. Inside this category, GPQA 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 70.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 versus 56.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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