Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
67
Winner · 5/8 categoriesQwen3.5 397B
64
2/8 categoriesQwen3.5-35B-A3B· Qwen3.5 397B
Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 67 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 72.6 against 40.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 74.6% 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.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 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. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for Qwen3.5 397B.
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| Benchmark | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Qwen3.5 397B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticQwen3.5 397B wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 40.5% | 58% |
| BrowseComp | 61% | 62% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 54.5% | 52% |
| tau2-bench | 81.2% | — |
| CodingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| SWE-bench Verified | 69.2% | 42% |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.6% | 39% |
| HumanEval | — | 75% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 42% |
| Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 75.1% | 56% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 68% |
| ReasoningQwen3.5 397B wins | ||
| LongBench v2 | 59% | 72% |
| MuSR | — | 78% |
| BBH | — | 82% |
| MRCRv2 | — | 71% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85.3% | 73% |
| SuperGPQA | 63.4% | 80% |
| GPQA | 84.2% | 82% |
| MMLU | — | 83% |
| HLE | — | 10% |
| FrontierScience | — | 71% |
| SimpleQA | — | 80% |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| IFEval | 91.9% | 82% |
| MultilingualQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 81% | 77% |
| MGSM | — | 82% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 83% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 85% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 84% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 79% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 81% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 80% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 82% |
| MATH-500 | — | 81% |
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is ahead overall, 67 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 74.6% and 39%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 61. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 40.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.3 versus 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.9 versus 50.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 61.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 82. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81 versus 78.8. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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