Nova Pro vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Facts
Wins 6 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Images and charts · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.5 35B A3B is the stronger all-rounder.Nova Pro is better at facts.
Scores updated · 28 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- CodingWriting and fixing software02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 2 tests
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video02Qwen3.5 35B A3B2 of 2 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own01Qwen3.5 35B A3B1 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.5 35B A3B1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked01Qwen3.5 35B A3B1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up21Nova Pro2 of 3 tests
Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs 44% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.5 35B A3B pulls ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+51points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+34.6points ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+34.4points ahead
Where Nova Pro pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+7.7points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 28 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.5 35B A3B
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3.5 35B A3B by 20.46.126.5+20.4
- SciCodeQwen3.5 35B A3B by 16.920.837.7+16.9
ReasoningQwen3.5 35B A3B
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.5 35B A3B by 34.649.984.5+34.6
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.5 35B A3B by 17.83.221+17.8
- CritPttie00.9tie
FactsNova Pro
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationNova Pro by 7.722.314.6+7.7
- Vectara HHEM hallucination ratelower is betterNova Pro by 5.45.110.5+5.4
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyQwen3.5 35B A3B by 3.216.920.1+3.2
Images and chartsQwen3.5 35B A3B
Following instructionsQwen3.5 35B A3B
- IFBenchQwen3.5 35B A3B by 34.438.172.5+34.4
Other results15 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.5 35B A3B by 75.21489.2+75.2
- OpenBookQANova Pro by 51.89644.2+51.8
- LVBenchQwen3.5 35B A3B by 29.841.671.4+29.8
- vectara_avg_summary_lengthQwen3.5 35B A3B by 28.766.294.9+28.7
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3.5 35B A3B by 261137+26
- HumanEvalNova Pro by 22.58966.5+22.5
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.5 35B A3B by 12.3719.3+12.3
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.5 35B A3B by 7.14.711.8+7.1
- vectara_factual_consistencyNova Pro by 5.494.989.5+5.4
- MMLUQwen3.5 35B A3B by 5.375.881.1+5.3
- BFCLv4Nova Pro by 1.168.467.3+1.1
- ARC-Challengetie94.895.4tie
- vectara_answer_ratetie99.399.8tie
- AA-Omnisciencetie-47.7-48.1tie
- IFEvaltie92.191.9tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Nova Pro or Qwen3.5 35B A3B?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, images and charts, long documents and following instructions. Nova Pro wins facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.5 35B A3B. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Nova Pro wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Nova Pro costs $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25 and $2.00. That makes Qwen3.5 35B A3B about 44% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 28 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 13 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 15 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.