# MiniCPM5-2B vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-2B and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 11
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniCPM5-2B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.5 397B leads overall 54.7 to 44.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 14.4% and 50.9%.
- MiniCPM5-2B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- MiniCPM5-2B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | 54.7 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #71/152)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 62% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 46.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #59/151)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.1% | 83.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SciCode | 26.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.4% | 76.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 14.4% | 50.9% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63 (#27/48)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 43.7% | 63.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.2 (Estimated · #77/183)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 70.8% | 87.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMLU-Redux | 84.7% | 94.9% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| HLE | 8.9% | 28.7% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 40.8% | 70.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#123/123)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 86.7% | 92.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.2 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 86.5% | 93.3% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 63.8% | 87.9% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MATH-500 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniCPM5-2B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-2B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-2B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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