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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Trinity Large Preview

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 12 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3.5-35B-A3B Released 24 Feb 2026 · $0.16 in · $1.30 out
Arcee AITrinity Large Preview Not on sale
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B wins 73 too close to callTrinity Large Preview wins 2

Of the 12 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).

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B or Trinity Large Preview? The short answer

They score and cost about the same: pick on the results below that match your work.

  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B does better for writing.

Head to head

Every fact side by side

Qwen3.5-35B-A3BTrinity Large Preview
Price per million tokens$0.16 in · $1.30 outNot on sale
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.45–
Cheapest host, blended$0.25 (Darkbloom, FP4)–
Intelligence Index19.3–
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window262,144 tokens–
Released24 Feb 2026–
WeightsOpenClosed
Developer based inChinathe US

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 116 of 164 not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 92 of 198 not measured
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 108 of 188 119 of 189
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 112 of 152 95 of 153

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.

MeasureQwen3.5-35B-A3BTrinity Large Preview
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 147 · 165 of 387 measured 1,394 1,379
Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 129 · 147 of 163 measured 1,407 1,373
Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 139 · 158 of 380 measured 1,403 1,381
UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results
Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 97 · 108 of 230 measured 42.6think-prefill reasoning 40.7
Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 83 · 140 of 230 measured 17.0%no reasoning 24.0%
Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 151 · 14 of 230 measured 0.33no reasoning 0.40
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard reported by Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard · 2 results
Hallucination rate · Vectara% of summaries, lower is better 62 · 30 of 104 measured 10.5% 6.9%
Answer rate · Vectara% of documents, higher is better 31 · 65 of 104 measured 99.8% 99.0%
Show all 12 results (4 more)
MeasureQwen3.5-35B-A3BTrinity Large Preview
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 4 results
Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 163 · 151 of 385 measured 1,342 1,352
Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 134 · 149 of 338 measured 1,419 1,404
Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 140 · 160 of 387 measured 1,386 1,370
Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 155 · 159 of 386 measured 1,363 1,359

Quick answers

Is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B better than Trinity Large Preview?

They score and cost about the same: pick on the results below that match your work.

Which is better for writing, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B or Trinity Large Preview?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B ranks 108 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 119 for Trinity Large Preview.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B or Trinity Large Preview?

Trinity Large Preview ranks 95 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 112 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

Run Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Trinity Large Preview on your own prompt

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