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Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is an open-weights language model from Alibaba, released February 2026. Its published size is 36B parameters (3B active per token) and a 262k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.

66.6±0.4#120 of 719 LLMsfrom 135 benchmark results across 18 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, out of 828 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
137Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (05-06) Google67±1comparison only2025-05
138GigaChat 3.5 Ultra Reasoning (432B-A28B) Sber67±1local~461GB2026-09
139Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba67±0api $0.35/M +local~23GB2026-02
140DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek67±1local~230GB2025-09
141DeepSeek V3.2 Exp DeepSeek67±1local~726GB2025-09
more from Alibaba
18Qwen3.8 Max (2.4T-A95B) Alibaba78±1api $3.00/M +local~380GB2026-08
34Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Alibaba76±1api $3.00/M2026-09
37Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Alibaba75±1local~59GB2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #95 of 300 · 22% of its score · 18 tests

Beats Grok 4.20 (0309 reasoning), Grok 4.3, o3-pro here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Nova 2 Pro (Preview) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
SWE-bench Verified +458.6% ✎▄▄·····▄▄▄▄█ beats 3/7hard · avg 17%▇▇ 6.1%sharp · at its level · several runs
Terminal-Bench 2.126.4% ✎▄······█▄▄█▄ beats 1/7very hard · avg 7.1%▇ 2.0%at its level
τ²-bench aggregate lab +181.2% ✎▁▁▁·▂▂▄▃▃▅█▂ beats 25/37medium · avg 36%▇ 1.9%several runs
SWE-bench Multilingual +147.7% ✎▄·▄·····█▄█▄ beats 2/7hard · avg 18%▇ 1.8%at its level · several runs
SWE-bench Pro (split unspecified)38.0% ✎▄···▄···▄▄██ beats 4/7very hard · avg 6.5%▇ 1.6%sharp · at its level
Terminal-Bench 2.0 lab40.5% ✎▂▂▅▅████▆▂▃▃ beats 13/36very hard · avg 11%▇ 1.1%at its level · small run
WideSearch lab +157.1% ✎█·▂▆··▂···▂▂ beats 1/10hard · avg 33%▇ 1.0%at its level · small run · several runs
BrowseComp-ZH lab69.5% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃·▁▄▅▄█ beats 20/23hard · avg 23%▇ 0.9%at its level · small run
10 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
OSWorld-Verified lab54.5% ✎█▄·▃▆▂▄▂▆▄▆█ beats 6/25hard · avg 21%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run
BrowseComp lab61.0% ✎▂·▄▁▂▃▆▄█▂▃▄ beats 24/42hard · avg 23%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run
MCP-Atlas (public set) lab62.4% ✎▂·▁▂▁·▁▃█▆▆▂ beats 12/37hard · avg 29%▇ 0.7%at its level · small run
MCPMark lab27.0% ✎▃·····█··▃█▃ beats 4/8very hard · avg 10%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
Toolathlon (Tool Decathlon) lab28.7% ✎▂▂▄▃▄▄▆▂█▆██ beats 4/27very hard · avg 11%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
Humanity's Last Exam with tools lab47.4% ✎▂▂▂▁▄▂▃▆█▇▂▆ beats 23/54hard · avg 18%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
EEGAgentBench overall (tool-based EEG analysis agents, 6 tasks)45.9% ✎▂·▁▁··▇▇█▂·▁ beats 11/25hard · avg 29%▇ 0.5%blunt · at its level
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive) lab67.3% ✎▁▁▁▂▇▆▆▆█▂▄▂ beats 100/111medium · avg 41%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
SWE-bench Pro public set, Qwen-refined lab44.6% ✎▂·····▂·▃█▃▅ beats 2/12hard · avg 15%▇ 0.4%at its level
τ³-bench lab68.9% ✎▁▁▂▁·▁▁·▁▁▂█ beats 17/25medium · avg 38%▇ 0.4%blunt · at its level · small run
coding▁▁▁▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #140 of 458 · 18% of its score · 9 tests

Beats Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Qwen3-Coder-Next (80B-A3B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Devstral Small 2 24B, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
SWE-bench Verified +458.6% ✎▄▄·····▄▄▄▄█ beats 3/7hard · avg 17%▇▇ 6.1%sharp · at its level · several runs
Arena WebDev (Code Arena)1253.4 ✎▁▂▄▃▅█▄▇▆▄▁▁ beats 13/119avg 981▇ 2.9%sharp
LiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025) lab +374.6% ✎▁▁▃▁█▅▄▇▅▅▃█ beats 24/38medium · avg 43%▇ 2.4%at its level · several runs
SWE-bench Multilingual +147.7% ✎▄·▄·····█▄█▄ beats 2/7hard · avg 18%▇ 1.8%at its level · several runs
SWE-bench Pro (split unspecified)38.0% ✎▄···▄···▄▄██ beats 4/7very hard · avg 6.5%▇ 1.6%sharp · at its level
LiveCodeBench Pro 2025Q2 (Medium)17.8% ✎█··▄▂▂██▄·▄▆ beats 19/22very hard · avg 3.0%▇ 1.6%sharp
SciCode (level unspecified)27.7% ✎▄···▄▄█▄·▄·▄ beats 2/7very hard · avg 13%▇ 0.8%at its level
LiveCodeBench Pro 2025Q2 (Easy)81.1% ✎▂··▃▂▃▆▅█·▃▂ beats 18/20medium · avg 45%▇ 0.7%typical
1 more test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
SWE-bench Pro public set, Qwen-refined lab44.6% ✎▂·····▂·▃█▃▅ beats 2/12hard · avg 15%▇ 0.4%at its level
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #119 of 393 · 2.7% of its score · 3 tests

Beats LongCat 2.0 (1.6T-A48B), GPT-5 mini here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2.5 2.6B, Nemotron-Cascade-8B, DeepSeek V3 0324 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1393.8 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 236/379avg 1268▇ 1.6%blunt
Arena-Hard v2 aggregate65.4% ✎▁▁··▄▃▁▃█▁▁▇ beats 13/22hard · avg 28%▇ 0.7%sharp · at its level · small run
IFEval (aggregation unspecified) lab91.9% ✎▁▁▃▁▂▄▄▆█▃▂▁ beats 122/141easy · avg 81%▇ 0.4%small run
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #127 of 398 · 18% of its score · 14 tests

Beats Claude Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax-M3, MiMo-V2.5 (310B-A15B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Olmo 3.1 32B Think, Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Thinking, Granite 4.2 8B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AIME 2026 +191.1% ✎▁▁▁▂▁▂▆█▆▂·▁ beats 25/49medium · avg 57%▇ 2.5%sharp · small run · several runs
IMO-AnswerBench +174.8% ✎▁▁·▁▁▁▄▅█▄▂▃ beats 16/42medium · avg 36%▇ 2.2%small run · several runs
MathArena ArXivMath February 2026 (32 problems)30.5% ✎▁▁▁▁█▇▄▃▁▃·▃ beats 4/24very hard · avg 9.1%▇ 1.8%at its level
HMMT February 2026 lab78.7% ✎▃▃▂▃·██▆█▅▃▅ beats 18/33hard · avg 35%▇ 1.6%sharp · small run
MathArena ArXivMath January 2026 (23 problems)50.0% ✎▂··▄▂▄█▆▆▄▄█ beats 5/23hard · avg 22%▇ 1.5%at its level
MATH-Vision lab +183.9% ✎▁▁·▁··▄▁▃▇▇█ beats 18/24medium · avg 54%▇ 1.4%small run · several runs
OTIS mock AIME 2024–202554.4% ✎▃▃▄▃▃▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 81/193very hard · avg 8.5%▇ 1.2%sharp · noisy
HMMT February 2025 lab89.0% ✎▁▁▁▃▁▅▅▃██▁▄ beats 16/31medium · avg 61%▇ 1.2%small run
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testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AIME 202591.9% ✎▁·▁▁▁▂▅▆█▇▅▁ beats 120/133medium · avg 63%▇ 1.0%sharp · maxed out
MathArena ArXivMath December 2025 (17 problems)39.7% ✎▃·▃▃█▁·▄·▁▁▁ beats 7/18hard · avg 19%▇ 1.0%at its level
HMMT November 2025 lab89.2% ✎▁▁····▁▅▃█▇▁ beats 12/23easy · avg 67%▇ 0.7%small run
MathVista (testmini) lab86.2% ✎▁··▁▄▄▇█▅▆█▄ beats 42/47medium · avg 64%▇ 0.7%small run
PolyMATH lab64.4% ✎▁···▃▁·▇█▄▄▄ beats 19/23hard · avg 34%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
DynaMath lab85.0% ✎▂·····▂··█▄▆ beats 6/10medium · avg 65%▇ 0.6%small run
vision & documents▁▁▃▂▁▃▄▂▆▇█▄ #51 of 147 · 10% of its score · 19 tests

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp), GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.5 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Qwen3.6 Flash here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MATH-Vision lab +183.9% ✎▁▁·▁··▄▁▃▇▇█ beats 18/24medium · avg 54%▇ 1.4%small run · several runs
OmniDocBench 1.5 overall (higher is better) lab +189.3% ✎▂··▂▂▂··▂▂█▅ beats 7/13easy · avg 70%▇ 1.1%small run · several runs
ChartArena chart parsing (English, mAP_high average)54.1% ✎▁·▁·▃▃▁▇▃█·▄ beats 20/22hard · avg 27%▇ 0.9%blunt · at its level
CharXiv (reasoning questions) lab77.5% ✎▂▅▃▅▅▆▆▅▆█▆▂ beats 69/100medium · avg 43%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run
MathVista (testmini) lab86.2% ✎▁··▁▄▄▇█▅▆█▄ beats 42/47medium · avg 64%▇ 0.7%small run
MMMU (val) lab81.4% ✎▁····▁▁▄█▇▆▆ beats 47/52medium · avg 58%▇ 0.7%small run
MMMU Pro lab75.1% ✎▂▃▁▃▆▇▃▇▇██▅ beats 39/52medium · avg 47%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
MMStar lab81.9% ✎▃▅▂▃▂▂▆█▆▆█▅ beats 32/34medium · avg 63%▇ 0.5%small run
11 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HallusionBench lab +167.9% ✎▃▁·▃▃▃▄▅▄█▅▅ beats 28/32medium · avg 55%▇ 0.4%blunt · at its level · small run · several runs
CountBench lab97.8% ✎▂▂▃▂·▂▂▃▃·▅█ beats 17/18very easy · avg 92%▇ 0.4%maxed out · small run
PMC-VQA lab62.0% ✎▃···▃··▃▃·▃█ beats 4/7medium · avg 39%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
SimpleVQA lab58.3% ✎▃·▃·▃·▃·█▅▃▃ beats 6/10hard · avg 34%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
MMBench-EN dev v1.1 lab91.5% ✎█▄···▂··▄▃▄▆ beats 9/14easy · avg 82%▇ 0.3%blunt · small run
ScreenSpot-Pro lab68.6% ✎▂▃▅▆██▅▂···▂ beats 17/24medium · avg 48%▇ 0.3%blunt · at its level · small run
RealWorldQA lab84.1% ✎▂▃▂█▃██▆█▂▆▆ beats 34/38easy · avg 72%▇ 0.2%blunt · small run
AI2D test lab +192.6% ✎▁▁▅▇▃▇·▄·█·▃ beats 21/28easy · avg 85%▇ 0.2%blunt · small run · several runs
CC-OCR lab80.7% ✎▁·▂··▂▂▃▃▂▆█ beats 19/26easy · avg 72%▇ 0.2%blunt · small run
OCRBench lab91.0% ✎▁·▃▁▆▅▂█▅█▃▃ beats 34/37easy · avg 83%▇ 0.1%blunt · small run
PureDocBench document parsing (Avg3 over Clean/Digital/Real)65.7% ✎▂·▁·▂▃▅█·▁▂▂ beats 6/22medium · avg 62%▇ 0.0%blunt · at its level
web search▂▁▂▆▄█▃▃▁▁·▁ #65 of 80 · 3.7% of its score · 5 tests

Beats DeepSeek V4 Flash (Preview, Apr 2026), Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B, GLM-4.7 here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GPT-4.1 nano, GPT-4o mini (2024-07-18), Mistral Small 3.1 24B (2503) here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WideSearch lab +157.1% ✎█·▂▆··▂···▂▂ beats 1/10hard · avg 33%▇ 1.0%at its level · small run · several runs
BrowseComp-ZH lab69.5% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃·▁▄▅▄█ beats 20/23hard · avg 23%▇ 0.9%at its level · small run
BrowseComp lab61.0% ✎▂·▄▁▂▃▆▄█▂▃▄ beats 24/42hard · avg 23%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run
Humanity's Last Exam with tools lab47.4% ✎▂▂▂▁▄▂▃▆█▇▂▆ beats 23/54hard · avg 18%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
SealQA Seal-0 lab41.4% ✎█····█·····█ beats 0/2hard · avg 19%▇ 0.5%at its level · small run
other tests52 not in a task · 41% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GPQA Diamond +383.5% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▆▄▅▇█▅ beats 140/208hard · avg 40%▇▇▇ 6.9%sharp · at its level · several runs
Humanity's Last Exam lab +322.4% ✎▁▁▁▃▆▆▇██▆▁▃ beats 52/104very hard · avg 5.2%▇ 2.9%several runs
MMLU-Pro lab +385.3% ✎▁▁·▁▁▁▃▂▄▅█▁ beats 174/188medium · avg 57%▇ 2.9%several runs
VitaBench lab +131.9% ✎▄··▂▄▆▆█▄▄▄▂ beats 15/21very hard · avg 11%▇ 1.3%at its level · small run · several runs
MedXPertQA MM lab61.4% ✎▂···▂·▃··▆▂█ beats 10/13very hard · avg 31%▇ 1.3%sharp · at its level · small run
KINA (Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark) accuracy, 899 ten-option items35.4% ✎▁▁▂▁▃▄█▆▄▅▂▃ beats 27/39very hard · avg 22%▇ 1.1%blunt · at its level
Polish medical board exams, bias-mitigated MCQ protocol (7-exam average)72.2% ✎▄·▂▂▂··█▂▄·▄ beats 12/13hard · avg 48%▇ 1.0%at its level
LongBench v2 lab59.0% ✎▂·▁·▂▂▁▃▄▁█▄ beats 18/28very hard · avg 35%▇ 1.0%at its level · small run
44 more tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
C-Eval lab90.2% ✎▁···▁▁▂▁▂▂▃█ beats 23/33medium · avg 70%▇ 0.9%small run
LVBench lab +171.4% ✎▇·█▅▅▄▄··▃▁▁ beats 21/28medium · avg 52%▇ 0.9%at its level · small run · several runs
AgentWorldBench (open-ended, overall) lab47.7% ✎▄▄··▄▄·▄█▄██ beats 1/11hard · avg 25%▇ 0.9%blunt · at its level
INCLUDE lab79.7% ✎▂····▂▂▄▄▄█▄ beats 27/36medium · avg 55%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run
DeepPlanning lab +122.8% ✎▂·····▂··▄█▄ beats 5/9very hard · avg 8.7%▇ 0.8%small run · several runs
ZEROBench subquestions lab +134.1% ✎▄·▄···▄·▄██▄ beats 4/8hard · avg 16%▇ 0.8%at its level · small run · several runs
MMLU-Redux lab93.3% ✎▁▁▃▁▂▃▄▅▇▅█▄ beats 55/63easy · avg 78%▇ 0.8%small run
NL2Repo lab20.5% ✎▂▂·▃▂▄█▆▆▂▄▆ beats 2/21very hard · avg 6.6%▇ 0.8%typical
MMMLU lab85.2% ✎▂▁▁▂▃▂▄▄▅██▃ beats 36/46medium · avg 63%▇ 0.7%small run
OJBench lab36.0% ✎▁···▁▃·▅▄▅██ beats 21/26very hard · avg 13%▇ 0.7%at its level · small run
QwenClawBench (Qwen internal) lab47.7% ✎▄·▄····▄···█ beats 2/4hard · avg 22%▇ 0.7%at its level
Video-MME (without subtitles) lab +182.5% ✎▁▃▁▃▁·█▄▄▅·▇ beats 24/27medium · avg 67%▇ 0.6%blunt · small run · several runs
CPTUB average (SpeakLeash, 0-5 judge scale)84.5% ✎▁▂▂▂▃█▃▆▅▄▃▃ beats 89/95easy · avg 66%▇ 0.6%typical
Global PIQA lab86.6% ✎▃▃··▃··▃▃▅█▅ beats 8/11medium · avg 72%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
Chess Puzzles (Epoch)1.0% ✎█▁▁▁▁▂▁▄▂▂▁▁ beats 44/135very hard · avg 5.9%▇ 0.6%sharp · noisy
MAXIFE lab86.6% ✎▂·▂·▂···▆·▄█ beats 8/11easy · avg 65%▇ 0.6%small run
IFBench (aggregation unspecified) lab70.2% ✎▃▇▂▄▅▅▂▄▄▆█▇ beats 55/80medium · avg 43%▇ 0.6%at its level · small run
MultiChallenge lab60.0% ✎▁·▁·▁▃▆▅▃▁█▅ beats 19/29hard · avg 30%▇ 0.5%at its level · small run
VideoMMMU lab80.4% ✎▂···▂···▂▂█▆ beats 5/10medium · avg 59%▇ 0.5%small run
MMLU-ProX lab81.0% ✎▁·▁▁▁▂▁▃▂█▅▄ beats 25/35medium · avg 57%▇ 0.5%small run
SuperGPQA lab63.4% ✎▂▁▂▂▅▆▃▇▇▇█▃ beats 38/46medium · avg 36%▇ 0.5%at its level · small run
VLMs Are Blind lab97.0% ✎▂·▂·····▃··█ beats 8/8very easy · avg 89%▇ 0.5%maxed out · small run
LingoQA lab79.2% ✎▄······▄·█·█ beats 1/5medium · avg 56%▇ 0.5%small run
SLAKE lab78.7% ✎▄·····▄▄·██▄ beats 3/7medium · avg 59%▇ 0.5%small run
Video-MME (with subtitles) lab86.6% ✎▁▁▁▁▁·▁▃▁▁▁█ beats 12/16medium · avg 71%▇ 0.5%small run
MMVU lab72.3% ✎▃···▃···▃▃▅█ beats 5/8medium · avg 48%▇ 0.5%at its level · small run
Claw-Eval Pass^3 lab51.0% ✎█▄▄·▄·▄▄·▄·▄ beats 3/8hard · avg 24%▇ 0.5%at its level · small run
MLVU lab85.6% ✎▂···▂···▂▄▄█ beats 5/10easy · avg 69%▇ 0.4%small run
RefSpatial-Bench lab63.5% ✎▃·▃····▃▃▅▅█ beats 4/10medium · avg 40%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
FullStackBench (English) lab58.1% ✎█····█·····█ beats 0/2hard · avg 31%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
FullStackBench (Chinese) lab55.0% ✎█······█···█ beats 0/2hard · avg 29%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
ERQA lab64.8% ✎▃··▃··█·▃█▅▅ beats 9/12medium · avg 36%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
MMLongBench-Doc lab59.5% ✎▃····▃··▃▃▅█ beats 6/8medium · avg 35%▇ 0.4%at its level · small run
EmbSpatial-Bench lab83.1% ✎▁·····▁·▁·▃█ beats 4/10easy · avg 66%▇ 0.4%small run
NOVA-63 lab57.1% ✎▃▃·▃···▃█▃▃█ beats 8/11medium · avg 35%▇ 0.4%blunt · at its level · small run
AndroidWorld lab71.1% ✎▁·▁▁▂▃█▅▂▃·▂ beats 22/24medium · avg 41%▇ 0.4%blunt · at its level · small run
SkillsBench 78-task subset (OpenCode, avg of 5) lab4.4% ✎▄·····▄···▄█ beats 0/4very hard · avg 7.1%▇ 0.3%typical
CL-bench15.5% ✎█··········▄ beats 2/2very hard · avg 7.1%▇ 0.3%blunt · small run
Claw-Eval average score lab65.4% ✎▄·▄··█▄▄▄▄▄▄ beats 5/9medium · avg 47%▇ 0.3%blunt · at its level · small run
NTCIR SciClaimEval Subtask 1 pair-accuracy (dev, single model)61.1% ✎▃▃···▃·▃▃█·▃ beats 2/8medium · avg 45%▇ 0.3%blunt · at its level
MVBench lab74.8% ✎▁··▃▄▁▃▄▄▄█▄ beats 21/26medium · avg 66%▇ 0.2%blunt · at its level · small run
LIBRA Mini (Russian long context, May 2026 version)43.7% ✎▄···▄█·██··▄ beats 6/8medium · avg 38%▇ 0.1%blunt · at its level
WMT24++ lab76.3% ✎▁·▁▁·▁·▁▂▆█▃ beats 7/27easy · avg 69%▇ 0.1%blunt · small run
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)89.5% ✎▁▂▁▂▅█▂▃▄▃▁▁ beats 40/98very easy · avg 90%▇ 0.0%blunt

$ where to run it

Through an API

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llama.cpp · recommended

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  1. 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 | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B · needs ~21.2 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B · needs ~21.2 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B · needs ~22.1 GB · from ollama.com
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b

MLX (Mac)

version

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run Qwen3.5 35B-A3B · needs ~20.4 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/mlx-community
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Qwen ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model… 42%, Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model ca… 18%, Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B model card 8% and 15 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

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model card · lab-reported71▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 42%apache-2.0
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model card · lab-reported27▇▇▇▇▇ 18%apache-2.0
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B model card · lab-reported7▇▇▇ 8%apache-2.0
Kwaipilot/KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev model card5▇▇ 7%Apache-2.0
NVIDIA — Nemotron-Cascade 2 technical report7▇▇ 6%CC BY 4.0
LMArena leaderboard dataset2▇ 4%CC BY 4.0
MathArena ArXivMath / BrokenArXiv / ArXivLean model-output datasets3▇ 4%CC BY-SA 4.0
Epoch AI — internal evaluations3▇ 4%CC BY 4.0
Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark (arXiv:2606.05104v2)1▇ 1%CC BY 4.0
Reassessing High-Performing LLMs on Polish Medical Exams: True Competence or Bias-Driven Performance? (arXiv:2606.12250v1)1▇ 1%CC BY-SA 4.0
ChartArena: Benchmarking Chart Parsing across Languages, Scenarios, and Formats (arXiv:2606.01348v3)1▇ 1%CC BY 4.0
Qwen/Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B model card · lab-reported1▇ 1%Apache-2.0
SpeakLeash CPTUB (Complex Polish Text Understanding Benchmark)1▇ 1%MIT
EEGAgentBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Short- and Long-Horizon EEG Analysis (arXiv:2609.31632v1)1▇ 0%CC BY 4.0
SciTrue: Reliable Scientific Claim Validation with Frontier and Open Language Models at the NTCIR SciClaimEval Task — authors' own single-model dev evaluation1▇ 0%CC BY 4.0
ai-forever LIBRA leaderboard (Russian long-context benchmark)1▇ 0%MIT
How Far Is Document Parsing from Solved? PureDocBench: A Source-Traceable Benchmark across Clean, Degraded, and Real-World Settings (arXiv:2605.07492v2)1▇ 0%CC BY 4.0
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (vectara/hallucination-leaderboard repository)1▇ 0%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 0%
weighted average= 66.6

not counted (5)

Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model cardMMLU-Pro [correct]85.3%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model cardHumanity's Last Exam [correct]22.4%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model cardGPQA Diamond [correct]84.2%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model cardSWE-bench Verified [correct]69.2%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model cardLiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025) [correct]74.6%the only model in this source's run of the test, so there is nothing to compare it with there; another run of the test counts
$ published speed measurements · 11

Reference results for the hardware, engine and settings below. They aren't verified speeds of the downloads above or predictions for your machine.

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBIQ4_XS75.22 tok/sllama.cpp 1fd5f4803 (build_number 134 as recorded), Vulkan (RADV) · llama-bench; tg128; 128 generated tokens; context depth 0; n_prompt=0 row; n_batch=2048; n_ubatch=512; flash_attn=1; type_k=f16; type_v=f16; n_gpu_layers=999; threads=16; one sequence; file label r5 repetitions

Author's own llama-bench CSV row (avg_ts mean over repetitions, stddev_ts retained). GPU string as recorded: Radeon 8060S Graphics (RADV STRIX_HALO). Unified memory; the guide reports ~124GiB OS-visible. Kernel/Mesa/power profile per the run folder notes. Not prompt processing or multi-request throughput. Curated in the guide's data/benchmarks.csv line 42 (2026-06-03, measured-local): Current/larger Qwen comparator; newer or larger is not automatically faster. Generation-only p0/n128 r10 was 75.53 t/s.

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M64.85 tok/sllama.cpp b8460, Vulkan (RADV) · llama-bench pp512/tg128 as tabulated (tg_tps column = tg128 generation); exact flags not retained in a raw CSV for this historical row

Historical row sourced by the guide to its own BENCHMARKS.md/README.md; no raw CSV retained. Row date 2026-03-21, status measured-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2-26.0.6. Author note: Backend and build comparison baseline

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M48 tok/sOllama 0.20.4, Ollama Vulkan RADV · Ollama generation rate (eval tokens/s) as tabulated; prompt 14 tokens; one request at a time unless notes say otherwise; generated-token count not tabulated

Ollama API eval rate from the guide's structured table; warm-run means where the note says so. Row date 2026-03-20, status historical-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2. Author note: Mesa 26.0.2 era

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M47.5 tok/sOllama 0.20.4, Ollama Vulkan RADV · Ollama generation rate (eval tokens/s) as tabulated; prompt 23 tokens; one request at a time unless notes say otherwise; generated-token count not tabulated

Ollama API eval rate from the guide's structured table; warm-run means where the note says so. Row date 2026-03-20, status historical-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2. Author note: Mesa 26.0.2 era

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M47.4 tok/sOllama 0.20.4, Ollama Vulkan RADV · Ollama generation rate (eval tokens/s) as tabulated; prompt 122 tokens; one request at a time unless notes say otherwise; generated-token count not tabulated

Ollama API eval rate from the guide's structured table; warm-run means where the note says so. Row date 2026-03-20, status historical-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2. Author note: Mesa 26.0.2 era

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M52.06 tok/sllama.cpp b8298, Vulkan (RADV) · llama-bench pp512/tg128 as tabulated (tg_tps column = tg128 generation); exact flags not retained in a raw CSV for this historical row

Historical row sourced by the guide to its own BENCHMARKS.md/README.md; no raw CSV retained. Row date 2026-03-21, status historical-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2-26.0.6. Author note: kyuz0-era direct path

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M54.67 tok/sllama.cpp b8460, ROCm (HIP) · llama-bench pp512/tg128 as tabulated (tg_tps column = tg128 generation); exact flags not retained in a raw CSV for this historical row

Historical row sourced by the guide to its own BENCHMARKS.md/README.md; no raw CSV retained. Row date 2026-03-21, status measured-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2-26.0.6. Author note: HSA override fix applied

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M47.87 tok/sllama.cpp b8301, ROCm (HIP) · llama-bench pp512/tg128 as tabulated (tg_tps column = tg128 generation); exact flags not retained in a raw CSV for this historical row

Historical row sourced by the guide to its own BENCHMARKS.md/README.md; no raw CSV retained. Row date 2026-03-21, status historical-local, kernel 6.19.4, driver stack 26.0.2-26.0.6. Author note: Old self-compiled ROCm build with HSA fix

source ↗
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GBQ4_K_M48.8 tok/sllama.cpp b8301, ROCm (HIP) · llama-bench pp512/tg128 as tabulated (tg_tps column = tg128 generation); exact flags not retained in a raw CSV for this historical row

Historical row sourced by the guide to its own BENCHMARKS.md/README.md; no raw CSV retained. Row date 2026-03-21, status historical-local, kernel 6.18.14, driver stack 26.0.2-26.0.6. Author note: Previous kernel reference

source ↗
Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated)Q4 GGUF (4-bit; exact llama.cpp type not stated)72.5 tok/sllama.cpp b9960, Metal backend, default settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4)

Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded.

source ↗
Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated)MLX 4-bit (group size not stated)104.8 tok/smlx-lm 0.31.3 (MLX 0.32.0), default generation settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4)

Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded.

source ↗
$ quantization evidence · 7 measurements

How much of the full-precision result a quantized version kept, measured within one study. Rows from the same study share a table and aren't independent.

precisiontestfull → quantizedkept
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedLiveCodeBench v6 code generation 0-shot (lighteval via litellm; mean of 3 seeds)0.754 → 0.764101.3%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedGPQA Diamond 0-shot (lighteval via litellm; mean of 3 seeds)0.83 → 0.832100.2%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedGSM8K-Platinum 0-shot (lm-evaluation-harness gsm8k_platinum_cot_llama, chat completions; mean of 3 seeds)0.95 → 0.951100.1%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedMMLU-Pro 0-shot (lm-evaluation-harness mmlu_pro_chat, chat completions; mean of 3 seeds)0.857 → 0.857100.0%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedAIME 2025 0-shot (lighteval via litellm; mean of 8 seeds)0.912 → 0.912100.0%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedIFEval prompt-level strict 0-shot (lm-evaluation-harness ifeval, chat completions; mean of 3 seeds)0.91 → 0.90499.4%source ↗
FP8 W8A8 dynamic (E4M3; weights static per-channel, activations dynamic per-token; llm-compressor FP8_DYNAMIC, compressed-tensors); lm_head, MoE router/shared-expert gates, linear-attention (Gated DeltaNet) and vision-encoder layers unquantizedMATH-500 0-shot (lighteval via litellm; mean of 3 seeds)0.849 → 0.84399.3%source ↗

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