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Qwen3.5-122B-A10B vs R1 0528

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 16 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Alibaba · profile
R1 0528
DeepSeek · profile
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16
Shared sources
3

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or R1 0528? The short answer

  • Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is cheaper: $0.72 against $0.92 per million tokens, 22% less.
  • Qwen3.5-122B-A10B scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 17.7 against 13.1.
  • On our business benchmarks, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge.
  • On our business benchmarks, R1 0528 ranks higher for writing.

At a glance

Qwen3.5-122B-A10BR1 0528
Price per million tokens$0.26 in · $2.08 out$0.50 in · $2.18 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.72$0.92
Cheapest host, blended$0.72 (SiliconFlow, FP8)$0.91 (DeepInfra, FP4)
Intelligence Index17.713.1
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second147–
Context window262,144 tokens163,840 tokens
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 models available today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. The better rank is in green.

Use caseQwen3.5-122B-A10BR1 0528
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 89 of 161 not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 83 of 195 106 of 195
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 101 of 187 90 of 187
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 107 of 153 not measured

Every shared result

BenchmarkMetricQwen3.5-122B-A10BR1 0528
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4221,407
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3661,389
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4421,418
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4061,391
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4161,422
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,3871,388
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 17.713.1
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 85.7%81.3%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 25.2%15.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 75.7%39.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 76.3%55.7%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 31.1%15.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 93.6%36.5%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 9.0%45.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.360.32
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 39.542.3

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.

Quick answers

Is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B better than R1 0528?

It depends on the task. Among models available today, on our benchmarks and licensed sources, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge; R1 0528 ranks higher for writing.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B or R1 0528?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.72 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.92 for R1 0528.

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