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Qwen3.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)

Alibaba · released

Wins 1 of 7 areas

Agents

Alibaba · released

Wins 4 of 7 areas

Coding · Reasoning · Math · Long documents

Qwen3 Max (Reasoning) wins more areas, narrowly.Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper and better at agents.

Scores updated · 33 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.

Agents rests on a single test.

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$0.25 to read · $2.00 to write$2.25Price from Alibaba's own price page
Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)$1.20 to read · $6.00 to write$7.20Price from Alibaba's own price page

Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs 69% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.

Where Qwen3 Max (Reasoning) pulls ahead

  • Recent programming contest problemsLiveCodeBench v6+11.3points aheadQwen3 Max (Reasoning)85.9Qwen3.5 35B A3B74.6
  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+9.7points aheadQwen3 Max (Reasoning)29.8Qwen3.5 35B A3B20.1
  • Olympiad math problems with short answersIMOAnswerBench+7.1points aheadQwen3 Max (Reasoning)83.9Qwen3.5 35B A3B76.8

Where Qwen3.5 35B A3B pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+9.3points aheadQwen3.5 35B A3B14.6Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)5.3
  • Finds hard-to-locate facts by browsing the webBrowseComp+7.1points aheadQwen3.5 35B A3B61Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)53.9
  • Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+2.3points aheadQwen3.5 35B A3B26.5Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)24.2

Every test, side by side

All 33 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingQwen3 Max (Reasoning)

Full coding ranking

AgentsQwen3.5 35B A3B

Full agents ranking

ReasoningQwen3 Max (Reasoning)

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

MathQwen3 Max (Reasoning)

Full math ranking

Long documentsQwen3 Max (Reasoning)
  • AA-LCRQwen3 Max (Reasoning) by 2.37274.3+2.3
  • LongBench v2Qwen3 Max (Reasoning) by 1.65960.6+1.6

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsEven

Full following instructions ranking

Other results17 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.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Qwen3.5 35B A3B or Qwen3 Max (Reasoning)?

Qwen3 Max (Reasoning) wins four of the seven areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, math and long documents. Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins agents, and costs 69% less. They are level on facts and following instructions.

Which is better for coding?

Qwen3 Max (Reasoning). It wins 3 of the 4 coding tests both models report; Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins 1.

Which is cheaper?

Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Max (Reasoning) costs $1.20 and $6.00. That makes Qwen3.5 35B A3B about 69% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 33 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 16 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 17 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.

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