# Qwen3.5 397B vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.5 397B and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-5-397b-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5 397B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- ZAYA1-8B leads overall 56 to 55.09.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 0 for Qwen3.5 397B and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is LiveCodeBench v6 in Coding, with scores of 83.6% and 65.8%.
- ZAYA1-8B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- ZAYA1-8B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 55.09 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.60 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 46.8 (Estimated · #77/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 46.1 (Estimated · #82/154)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 52.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 62% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 56.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 51.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 68.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 43.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 37.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 36.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 46.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 74.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 46.76% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.6 (Estimated · #59/154)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 83.6% | 65.8% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 62.9 (#27/48)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 79% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 59.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 63.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 68.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 50.3 (Estimated · #84/184)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 43.6 (Estimated · #120/184)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 88.4% | 71% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| SuperGPQA | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.8% | 74.2% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 93% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 28.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#124/124)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 23.5 (#121/124)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 85.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 69.7 (#5/12)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.3% | 89.1% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 94.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.9% | 71.6% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| MMAnswerBench | 80.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.5 397B or ZAYA1-8B?

ZAYA1-8B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.5 397B and ZAYA1-8B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 0 for Qwen3.5 397B and 23.5 for ZAYA1-8B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does ZAYA1-8B cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-8B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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