# LFM3-VL-2B vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM3-VL-2B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm3-vl-2b-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 27, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the higher overall point estimate 43.71 to 39. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 19.6 for LFM3-VL-2B and 66.6 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is VideoMMMU in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 49.6% and 83.7%.
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 43.71 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 20 | 44 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 30.7 (Estimated · #98/134)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 31.8 (Estimated · #95/155)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 v6 | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 74.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: 19.6 (Unranked · 19 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 66.6 (#44/58)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| RealWorldQA | 79.3% | 85.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| SimpleVQA | 36.3% | 58.9% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| CountBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | 55.7% | 81.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MMMU-Pro | 45.7% | 75.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| OCRBench V2 | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 90.5% | 92.0% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| V* | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 51.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 68.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 48.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 55.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 71.3% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MMVU | 52.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 62.8% | 82.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 69.0% | 86.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| VideoMMMU | 49.6% | 83.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| ExtractBench (LlamaIndex) | Coming soon | 88.11% | Coming soon |
| ParseBench | Coming soon | 44.10% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 42.7 (Estimated · #111/189)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 21.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#65/156)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- LFM3-VL-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 58.4 (#10/12)

| Benchmark | LFM3-VL-2B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 20.351% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LFM3-VL-2B or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between LFM3-VL-2B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 19.6 for LFM3-VL-2B and 66.6 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does LFM3-VL-2B cover on BenchLM?

LFM3-VL-2B currently has 20 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 44 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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