# Qwen3.6-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-35b-a3b-vs-qwen3-8-27b
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-27B 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

- Qwen3.8-27B leads overall 55.26 to 41.86.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 30 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and 61.2 for Qwen3.8-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is NL2Repo in Coding, with scores of 29.4% and 42.3%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 41.86 | 55.26 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 41 | 33 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 30 (Estimated · #79/117)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 61.2 (Supported · #18/117)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 68.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | 1397 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 67.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 35.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 25.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 26.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 60.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 42.65% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 33.4% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 64.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 58.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 36.2 (Estimated · #74/142)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #45/142)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 67.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 49.5% | 61.7% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 51.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 29.4% | 42.3% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 82.6% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 71.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 78.7 (#8/27)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 51 (#38/50)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 80.9 (#11/50)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 81.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 85.3% | 85.9% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 89.9% | 91.1% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| CharXiv | 78% | 90.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| SimpleVQA | 58.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 92.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 82.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 65.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 42.3 (Estimated · #88/168)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 49.2 (Supported · #63/168)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 85.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 86% | 89.2% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| HLE | 21.4% | 30.8% | Qwen3.8-27B |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.9% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 76.8 (#57/124)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 83.2 (#45/124)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Qwen3.8-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 90.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B or Qwen3.8-27B?

Qwen3.8-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Qwen3.8-27B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 30 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and 61.2 for Qwen3.8-27B.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 33 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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