Across 32 shared benchmarks, Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores higher on 26 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning on 5, with 1 level. The widest gap is OmniScience Non-Hallucination, where Qwen3.6 35B A3B scores 49.5 against 14.8. Qwen3.6 35B A3B is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.38 against $0.40 per million input tokens).
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. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (alibaba-official, alibaba-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.