Noometry

Model comparison

o1-mini vs Qwen3.5 35B-A3B

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. o1-mini scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 24.6 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 46.9% for o1-mini and 70% for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

o1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.042.0
Released2024-09-122026-02-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$2
Results tracked3928

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

o1-mini: 35.5 (#224), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Coding13621410
Aider Polyglot32.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1254
SciCode—29.3%
WeirdML36.3%—
LiveBench Coding48%—
HumanEval+89%—
MBPP+78.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

o1-mini: 24.6 (#118), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: —

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
Cybench10%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 8.8 (#346), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331400
Epoch Capabilities Index135.82142.52
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench18.1%—
ARC-AGI-114%—
CritPt—0.6%
Chess Puzzles—10%
LiveBench Reasoning72.3%—
DTBench—80%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA—29.5%
LiveBench57.8%—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 35.4 (#186), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202546.9%70%
LMArena Math13581404
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—56%
LiveBench Math62%—
MATH Level 589.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 34.9 (#192), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond62.4%83.5%
LMArena Expert13161408
Confabulations18.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 43.6 (#182), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12891378
LMArena Chinese13141457
LMArena French12931412
LMArena German12781367
LMArena Japanese12451325
LMArena Korean12231356
LMArena Russian12831376
LMArena Spanish13031392

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 66.7 (#206), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following13041379
LiveBench Instruction Following65.4%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 40.1 (#161), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query13201389

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

o1-mini: 48.4 (#202), Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124)

Benchmarko1-miniQwen3.5 35B-A3B
LMArena Text13171395
LMArena Creative Writing12441346
LMArena Multi-Turn13141390
Short-Story Creative Writing64.9%—
LiveBench Language40.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is o1-mini better than Qwen3.5 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.0 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is o1-mini or Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do o1-mini and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. o1-mini has 39 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28.

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