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Qwen3.5 0.8B is an open-weights language model from Alibaba, released March 2026. Its published size is 0.87B parameters and a 262k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.
$ how it compares
The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen3.5 0.8B, out of 828 with a score, then more from Alibaba.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 658 | 38±1 | local | |||
| 659 | 38±3 | local | |||
| 660 | 38±1 | local | |||
| 661 | 38±2 | local | |||
| 662 | 37±1 | local | |||
| more from Alibaba | |||||
| 18 | 78±1 | api $3.00/M +local | |||
| 34 | 76±1 | api $3.00/M | |||
| 37 | 75±1 | local | |||
$ what it's good at
agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #291 of 300 * · 3.6% of its score · 2 tests
Beats QwQ-32B-Preview, DeepSeek-Coder-V2 Lite Instruct (16B-A2.4B), Phi-4-mini 3.8B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Granite 4.0 350M, Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct, Granite 4.0 H 350M here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench aggregate lab | 11.6% ✎ | ▃▁▁·▂▂▄▃▃▅█▂ beats 0/37 | 2.2% |
| BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive) lab | 25.3% ✎ | ▁▁▁▂▇▆▆▆█▂▄▂ beats 16/111 | 1.4% |
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #350 of 393 * · 1.2% of its score · 1 test
Beats Gemma 4 E2B, Code Llama 70B Instruct, Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct (June 2024 update) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 3 270M IT, SmolLM2 360M Instruct, Granite 4.0 H 350M here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFEval (aggregation unspecified) lab | 44.0% ✎ | ▁▃▃▁▂▄▄▆█▃▂▁ beats 4/141 | 1.2% |
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #340 of 398 · 5.9% of its score · 3 tests
Beats GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125), DBRX Instruct, Command R Plus (04-2024) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Qwen3 0.6B, Gemma 7B (base), LFM2 700M here, though they rank lower overall.
vision & documents▁▁▃▂▁▃▄▂▆▇█▄ #134 of 147 · 24% of its score · 18 tests
Beats LLaVA-OneVision Qwen2 72B (ov-sft), Gemma 3 4B, CogVLM2 Llama3 Chat 19B here, though they rank higher overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| CharXiv (reasoning questions) lab | 41.3% ✎ | ▂▅▃▅▅▆▆▅▆█▆▂ beats 20/100 | 2.5% |
| MathVista (testmini) lab | 62.2% ✎ | ▁··▁▄▄▇█▅▆█▄ beats 17/47 | 2.4% |
| MMMU (val) lab | 49.0% ✎ | ▁····▁▁▄█▇▆▆ beats 8/52 | 2.2% |
| ChartArena chart parsing (English, mAP_high average) | 9.8% ✎ | ▃·▁·▃▃▁▇▃█·▄ beats 0/22 | 2.2% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 overall (higher is better) lab | 61.0% ✎ | ▃··▂▂▂··▂▂█▅ beats 0/13 | 1.9% |
| MMMU Pro lab | 31.2% ✎ | ▃▃▁▃▆▇▃▇▇██▅ beats 0/52 | 1.9% |
| MMStar lab | 58.3% ✎ | ▃▅▂▃▂▂▆█▆▆█▅ beats 7/34 | 1.7% |
| CountBench lab | 77.0% ✎ | ▂▂▃▃·▂▂▃▃·▅█ beats 4/18 | 1.6% |
10 more tests
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMC-VQA lab | 40.4% ✎ | ▃···▃··▃▃·▃█ beats 0/7 | 1.3% |
| SimpleVQA lab | 31.3% ✎ | ▃·▃·▃·▃·█▅▃▃ beats 0/10 | 1.3% |
| MMBench-EN dev v1.1 lab | 69.9% ✎ | █▄···▂··▄▂▄▆ beats 3/14 | 1.2% |
| BEAR-Bench (bilingual RU/EN enterprise and academic document images, overall accuracy) | 10.6% ✎ | ▃▃·▅·▃·█·█▅▅ beats 0/14 | 1.1% |
| HallusionBench lab | 53.1% ✎ | ▃▁·▃▃▃▄▅▄█▅▅ beats 6/32 | 0.8% |
| RealWorldQA lab | 63.4% ✎ | ▂▃▂█▃██▆█▂▆▆ beats 6/38 | 0.6% |
| CC-OCR lab | 63.2% ✎ | ▃·▂··▂▂▃▃▂▆█ beats 0/26 | 0.6% |
| OCRBench lab | 74.5% ✎ | ▁·▃▁▆▅▂█▅█▁▃ beats 3/37 | 0.5% |
| AI2D test lab | 69.9% ✎ | ▁▁▅▇▃▇·▄·█·▃ beats 2/28 | 0.3% |
| PureDocBench document parsing (Avg3 over Clean/Digital/Real) | 56.0% ✎ | ▂·▃·▂▂▅█·▁▂▂ beats 2/22 | 0.2% |
other tests34 not in a task · 67% of its score
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), validation split, 5-shot, accuracy | 56.3% ✎ | ▃·▂▂·▂·▃▃·█▃ beats 0/14 | 8.0% |
| MMLU-Pro lab | 42.3% ✎ | ▁▁·▁▁▁▃▂▄▅█▁ beats 32/188 | 4.2% |
| C-Eval lab | 50.5% ✎ | ▁···▁▁▂▃▂▂▃█ beats 7/33 | 3.6% |
| MMLU-Redux lab | 59.5% ✎ | ▃▁▃▁▂▃▄▅▇▅█▄ beats 0/63 | 3.3% |
| INCLUDE lab | 40.6% ✎ | ▂····▃▂▄▄▄█▄ beats 2/36 | 3.1% |
| MMMLU lab | 44.3% ✎ | ▂▁▁▂▃▂▄▄▅██▃ beats 7/46 | 2.8% |
| EuroEval HellaSwag (English), validation split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy | 38.0% ✎ | ▃··▂▂·▂▆▆█·▄ beats 0/15 | 2.6% |
| MAXIFE lab | 39.2% ✎ | ▃·▂·▂···▆·▄█ beats 0/11 | 2.4% |
26 more tests
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global PIQA lab | 59.4% ✎ | ▃▃··▃··▃▃▅█▅ beats 0/11 | 2.2% |
| MMLU-ProX lab | 34.6% ✎ | ▃·▁▁▁▂▁▃▂█▅▄ beats 0/35 | 2.2% |
| MultiChallenge lab | 18.9% ✎ | ▃·▁·▁▃▆▅▃▁█▅ beats 0/29 | 2.1% |
| SuperGPQA lab | 21.3% ✎ | ▃▁▂▂▅▆▃▇▇▇█▃ beats 0/46 | 2.0% |
| IFBench (aggregation unspecified) lab | 21.0% ✎ | ▃▇▂▄▅▅▂▄▄▆█▇ beats 8/80 | 2.0% |
| VLMs Are Blind lab | 59.4% ✎ | ▃·▂·····▃··█ beats 0/8 | 1.9% |
| MedXPertQA MM lab | 17.1% ✎ | ▃···▂·▃··▆▂█ beats 0/13 | 1.8% |
| VideoMMMU lab | 44.3% ✎ | ▃···▂···▂▂█▆ beats 0/10 | 1.8% |
| SLAKE lab | 62.6% ✎ | ▄·····▄▄·██▄ beats 0/7 | 1.7% |
| Video-MME (with subtitles) lab | 63.8% ✎ | ▁▁▁▃▁·▁▃▁▁▁█ beats 3/16 | 1.6% |
| KINA (Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark) accuracy, 899 ten-option items | 16.7% ✎ | ▁▃▂▁▃▄█▆▄▅▂▃ beats 1/39 | 1.6% |
| MLVU lab | 65.6% ✎ | ▃···▂···▂▄▄█ beats 0/10 | 1.6% |
| MMVU lab | 34.3% ✎ | ▃···▃···▃▃▅█ beats 0/8 | 1.5% |
| EmbSpatial-Bench lab | 68.6% ✎ | ▃·····▁·▁·▃█ beats 0/10 | 1.5% |
| LVBench lab | 45.1% ✎ | ▇·█▅▅▄▄··▃▁▁ beats 0/28 | 1.5% |
| RefSpatial-Bench lab | 23.5% ✎ | ▃·▃····▃▃▅▅█ beats 0/10 | 1.4% |
| ERQA lab | 34.5% ✎ | ▃··▃··█·▃█▅▅ beats 0/12 | 1.4% |
| MMLongBench-Doc lab | 33.6% ✎ | ▃····▃··▃▃▅█ beats 0/8 | 1.4% |
| NOVA-63 lab | 42.4% ✎ | ▃▃·▃···▃█▃▃█ beats 1/11 | 1.3% |
| ZEROBench subquestions lab | 12.9% ✎ | ▄·▄···▄·▄██▄ beats 0/8 | 1.2% |
| Video-MME (without subtitles) lab | 57.7% ✎ | ▁▃▃▃▁·█▄▄▅·▇ beats 3/27 | 1.1% |
| LongBench v2 lab | 26.1% ✎ | ▃·▁·▂▂▁▃▄▁█▄ beats 0/28 | 0.9% |
| MVBench lab | 55.8% ✎ | ▃··▃▄▁▃▄▄▄█▄ beats 0/26 | 0.6% |
| LIBRA Mini (Russian long context, May 2026 version) | 35.5% ✎ | ▄···▄█·██··▄ beats 1/8 | 0.3% |
| WMT24++ lab | 27.2% ✎ | ▃·▁▁·▁·▁▂▆█▃ beats 0/27 | 0.3% |
| GPQA (subset unspecified) lab | 11.9% ✎ | ▂▁▂▂▄▃▆▃▅█▄▃ beats 0/104 | — |
$ where to run it
llama.cpp · recommended
version
- Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | shWindowsirm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex - Run Qwen3.5 0.8B · needs ~0.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-communitychat in the terminal
llama cli -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M - Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
llama serve -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
LM Studio
version
- Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.
- Run Qwen3.5 0.8B · needs ~0.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
- Or download it in the terminal
lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y - Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name
Ollama
version
- Install Ollama
download it (macOS / Windows) ↗
Linuxcurl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh - Run Qwen3.5 0.8B · needs ~1.54 GB · from ollama.comchat in the terminal
ollama run qwen3.5:0.8b
MLX (Mac)
version
- Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.with uv
uv tool install mlx-lmorpip install mlx-lm - Run Qwen3.5 0.8B · needs ~0.6 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-communitychat in the terminal
mlx_lm.chat --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-MLX-4bit - Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
mlx_lm.server --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-MLX-4bit
Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Qwen ↗
$ how the score was worked out · Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B model card 79%, EuroEval leaderboards (result… 11%, Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B model card 4% and 5 more
Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works
| source | results | share of the score |
|---|---|---|
| 48 | 79% | |
| 2 | 11% | |
| 1 | 4% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 2% | |
| 1 | 1% | |
| 1 | 0% | |
| 1 | 0% | |
| prior · pull toward the middle | 0% | |
| weighted average | = 37.7 |
not counted (1)
| Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B model card | GPQA (subset unspecified) [correct] | 11.9% | failed run: 11.9% on GPQA (4 options, chance 25%) in thinking mode; probably unterminated thinking or unparsed answers rather than below-random knowledge. The next-lowest model on this benchmark scores 25.2%. |
$ published speed measurements · 15
Reference results for the hardware, engine and settings below. They aren't verified speeds of the downloads above or predictions for your machine.
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 113.4 tok/s | omlx (MLX; SSD prefix cache, in-memory tier disabled; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 105.5 tok/s | llama.cpp server (Metal; --parallel 4 slots; build not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 100.9 tok/s | vllm-metal (Metal; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 95.3 tok/s | vllm-mlx (MLX; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 93.9 tok/s | mlx_lm server (MLX; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 77 tok/s | omlx (MLX; SSD prefix cache, in-memory tier disabled; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 76.2 tok/s | vllm-metal (Metal; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 67.6 tok/s | vllm-mlx (MLX; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (64GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | BF16 (paper's main-track/fidelity protocol; Appendix E caption does not restate dtype) | 66.9 tok/s | llama.cpp server (Metal; --parallel 4 slots; build not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench harness (benchmark commit 616aa51c); 100 prompts per level after 3 warmup requests; closed loop at concurrency 1 (one request in flight); temperature 0, non-thinking generation; output throughput = total generated tokens / measured sweep wall time, so it includes prefill/TTFT and HTTP overhead (not a pure decode rate) Concurrency-1 cell; 100/100 requests succeeded. Appendix E speed tables do not restate dtype; the paper's main track and cross-model fidelity protocol are BF16. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 106.5 tok/s | llama.cpp (CUDA build, GGUF BF16 weights; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Chat split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 77.5 tok/s | llama.cpp (CUDA build, GGUF BF16 weights; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Agent split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 94.2 tok/s | vLLM (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Chat split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 73.4 tok/s | vLLM (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Agent split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 95 tok/s | SGLang (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Chat split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 79.4 tok/s | SGLang (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 Agent split, concurrency 1. | source ↗ |
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