Head-to-head comparison across 6benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-27B
63
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-27B #16 · Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #18
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+1.0 difference
Coding
+4.6 difference
Reasoning
+1.6 difference
Knowledge
+1.3 difference
Multilingual
+1.2 difference
Inst. Following
+3.1 difference
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Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Qwen3.5-27B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 63 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.5-27B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 63 against 58.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-Rebench, 58.9% to 53.7%.
Qwen3.5-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 63 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-Rebench, where the scores are 58.9% and 53.7%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 79.3. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63 versus 58.4. Inside this category, SWE-Rebench 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 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.6 versus 50.6. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified 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 91.9. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 81. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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