Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen3.6-27B
73
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
66
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen3.6-27B #18 · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #24
Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Agentic
+7.8 difference
Coding
+3.7 difference
Knowledge
+1.7 difference
Multimodal
+0.5 difference
Qwen3.6-27B
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Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Qwen3.6-27B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 73 to 66. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6-27B's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 59.3 against 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 59.3% to 51.5%.
Qwen3.6-27B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 73 to 66. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 59.3% and 51.5%.
Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.2 versus 60.5. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 70.6 versus 66.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.3 versus 51.5. Inside this category, GDPval-AA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.6 versus 76.1. Inside this category, SimpleVQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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