# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3.5 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude 3.5 Haiku leads overall 47 to 46.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 41.6% and 84.2%.
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 20 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 33.8 (Estimated · #80/124)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 28.96% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 25.8 (Estimated · #103/148)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 40.6% | 69.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 74.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 53.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 65.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DROP | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 64.6 (#42/54)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #104/181)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 41.6% | 84.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMLU-Pro | 65% | 85.3% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMLU | 80.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 63.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 83.8 (#11/17)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 88.8 (#32/128)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 85.9% | 91.9% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 5.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 3.5 Haiku cover on BenchLM?

Claude 3.5 Haiku currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B currently has 20 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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