# DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/deepseek-v4-1-flash-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | DeepSeek | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 46.21 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 21 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.30 / $1.20 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 41.2 (Estimated · #111/152)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| terminalBench3 | 30% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 31.20% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 15.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 63.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 54.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 31.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 51.5% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 35.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 26.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46 (Estimated · #87/151)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3471.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| terminalBench3 | 30% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 20.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 65.4% | 29.4% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 49.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 51.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50.1 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (tools) | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 49.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.2 (Estimated · #109/182)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 90.9% | 86% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| GPQA-D | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 36.8% | 21.4% | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#56/121)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Apex | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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