# Qwen3.6-27B vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-27b-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 31
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6-27B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.6-27B leads overall 52.73 to 48.34.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 33.9 for Qwen3.6-27B and 44.4 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is QwenWebBench in Agentic, with scores of 1487 and 1397.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 52.73 | 48.34 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #133/151)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #102/151)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| Claw-Eval | 72.4% | 68.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| QwenClawBench | 53.4% | 52.6% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| QwenWebBench | 1487 | 1397 | Qwen3.6-27B |
| AndroidWorld | 70.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 54.84% | 42.65% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 42.6 (Supported · #128/183)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 47.3 (Estimated · #90/183)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% | 73.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE Multilingual | 71.3% | 67.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.5% | 49.5% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 51.5% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| LiveCodeBench | 83.9% | 80.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| NL2Repo | 36.2% | 29.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.6-27B
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.5 (#35/48)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 49.7 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 82.9% | 81.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.8% | 75.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| RealWorldQA | 84.1% | 85.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| DynaMath | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MStar | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 56.1% | 58.9% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| CharXiv | 78.4% | 78% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| CC-OCR | 81.2% | 81.9% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| CountBench | 97.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 92.5% | 92.0% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| ERQA | 62.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 87.7% | 86.6% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | 83.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 86.6% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| V* | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 69 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 49 (Estimated · #95/181)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 46.5 (Estimated · #109/181)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 86.2% | 85.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Redux | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66% | 64.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| C-Eval | 91.4% | 90% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| GPQA | 87.8% | 86% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HLE | 24% | 21.4% | Qwen3.6-27B |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#50/120)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78 (#55/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 93.8% | 90.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 90.7% | 89.1% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.3% | 83.6% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMAnswerBench | 80.8% | 78.9% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| AIME26 | 94.1% | 92.7% | Qwen3.6-27B |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6-27B or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 33.9 for Qwen3.6-27B and 44.4 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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