Model comparison

Qwen1.5-7B vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #270 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 29.0.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-7B and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
Qwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.842.3
Released2024-02-042026-02-16
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked1315

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Coding1107—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen1.5-7B: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1066—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1080—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1055—
MMLU62.6%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1058—
LMArena Chinese1140—
LMArena Russian1006—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1058—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1090—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-7BQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1084—
LMArena Creative Writing1035—
LMArena Multi-Turn1061—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-7B better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-7B and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-7B has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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