Which is better, Qwen3.5 2B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.5 2B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

31 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 31 shared benchmarks, Qwen3.5 2B scores higher on 0 and Qwen3.6 Plus on 31. The widest gap is TauBench V3 - Banking, where Qwen3.6 Plus scores 20.8 against 2.5.

ALIBABAVSALIBABA31 SHARED0–31 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkQwen3.5 2BMARGINQwen3.6 Plus

AA Agentic Index0.829

AA Intelligence6.939.6

AA-LCR25.678.3

AA-Omniscience-60.22.6

Artificial Analysis Coding Index2.954.5

C-Eval73.293.3

critpt02.9

gdpval031.7

GPQA Diamond51.690.4

HLE528.8

IFBench41.375.2

ifeval78.694.3

include55.485.1

longbench_v238.762

mmlu_prox52.384.7

mmlu_redux79.694.5

MMLU-Pro66.588.5

mmmlu63.189.5

MMMU-Pro4378.8

MMStar55.183.3

OmniScience Accuracy8.126.4

OmniScience Non-Hallucination25.868

RealWorldQA65.185.4

scicode7.240.7

SimpleVQA35.267.3

supergpqa37.571.6

TauBench V3 - Banking2.520.8

Terminal-Bench 2.1361.4

Terminal-Bench Hard3.843.9

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)81.697.7

τ³-Bench6.270.7

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.

Compare Qwen3.5 2B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Across the fieldGemma 4 E2B GPT-4o mini Gemini 3.5 Flash GPT-6 Astra MiniMax M2.7 Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview

Compare Qwen3.6 Plus withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Across the fieldQwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview Qwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Qwen3.5 4B Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B