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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 19 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Released 25 Jul 2025 · $0.30 in · $3.00 out
AlibabaQwen3.5-35B-A3B Released 24 Feb 2026 · $0.16 in · $1.30 out
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 wins 35 too close to callQwen3.5-35B-A3B wins 11

Of the 19 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 13 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-13-2e2420e3c5cc).

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B? The short answer

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 19.3 against 12.7) and costs less.

  • Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is cheaper: $0.45 against $0.97 per million tokens, 2.2 times less.
  • Qwen3.5-35B-A3B scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 19.3 against 12.7.
  • Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is newer: released 24 Feb 2026, against 25 Jul 2025 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B does better for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

Head to head

12.7
Intelligence Index
19.3
$0.97
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$0.45
131,072
Context window, tokens
262,144

Every fact side by side

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Price per million tokens$0.30 in · $3.00 out$0.16 in · $1.30 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.97$0.45
Cheapest host, blended$0.75 (Alibaba)$0.25 (Darkbloom, FP4)
Intelligence Index12.719.3
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window131,072 tokens262,144 tokens
Released25 Jul 202524 Feb 2026 (newer)
WeightsOpenOpen
Developer based inChinaChina

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 138 of 164 116 of 164
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 117 of 198 92 of 198
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 122 of 188 108 of 188
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 92 of 152 112 of 152

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureQwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 139 · 147 of 387 measured 1,400 1,394
Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 133 · 139 of 380 measured 1,404 1,403
Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 133 · 163 of 385 measured 1,371 1,342
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 147 · 108 of 243 measured 12.7 19.3
GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 114 · 84 of 231 measured 79.0% 84.5%
Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 122 · 106 of 242 measured 15.9% 21.0%
UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results
Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 139 · 97 of 230 measured 32.4 42.6think-prefill reasoning
Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 166 · 83 of 230 measured 30.0% 17.0%no reasoning
Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 194 · 151 of 230 measured 0.31 0.33no reasoning
Show all 19 results (10 more)
MeasureQwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 85 · 134 of 338 measured 1,466 1,419
Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 142 · 140 of 387 measured 1,385 1,386
Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 139 · 155 of 386 measured 1,377 1,363
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 7 results
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 101 · 72 of 130 measured 12.0% 40.8%no reasoning
τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 87 · 107 of 121 measured 7.8% 4.9%no reasoning
Artificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score, higher is better 98 · 79 of 131 measured 22.1 37.0no reasoning
IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 101 · 39 of 195 measured 51.2% 72.5%
Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 99 · 99 of 233 measured 72.0% 72.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 116 · 74 of 190 measured 13.6% 26.5%
τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 101 · 45 of 193 measured 53.2% 89.2%

Quick answers

Is Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 better than Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 19.3 against 12.7) and costs less.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is cheaper: $0.45 against $0.97 per million tokens, 2.2 times less.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks 116 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 138 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks 92 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 117 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.

Which is better for writing, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks 108 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 122 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 ranks 92 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 112 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B: 262,144 tokens, against 131,072 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.

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