Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
56
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
58
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B #18 · ZAYA1-74B-Preview unranked
Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Coding
+5.2 difference
Knowledge
+15.0 difference
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
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Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 58 versus 56. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for ZAYA1-74B-Preview.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 58 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 84.2% and 57.3%.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.3 versus 64.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 58.4 versus 53.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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