Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
65
ZAYA1-8B
62
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B #8 · ZAYA1-8B unranked
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Knowledge
+8.5 difference
Inst. Following
+19.4 difference
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
ZAYA1-8B
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262K
131K
Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 65 versus 62. 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 instruction following, where it averages 93.4 against 74. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 86.6% to 71%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 131K for ZAYA1-8B.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 86.6% and 71%.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 73.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 74. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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