Head-to-head comparison across 6benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
Qwen3.6 Plus
73
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #20 · Qwen3.6 Plus #12
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+11.0 difference
Coding
+6.4 difference
Reasoning
+3.0 difference
Knowledge
+13.3 difference
Multilingual
+3.7 difference
Inst. Following
+4.1 difference
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen3.6 Plus
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262K
1M
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 73 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 61.6 against 50.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 40.5% to 61.6%. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.
Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 73 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 40.5% and 61.6%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 66. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.8 versus 58.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 59. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.6 versus 50.6. 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 instruction following in this comparison, averaging 91.9 versus 87.8. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 81. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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