Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-27B
66
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
64
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-27B #9 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #13
Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+0.1 difference
Coding
+3.9 difference
Knowledge
+20.1 difference
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Pick Qwen3.5-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Qwen3.5-27B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 66 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-27B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 80.6 against 60.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 41.6% to 51.5%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 66 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 41.6% and 51.5%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 60.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 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 agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.6 versus 51.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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