Model comparison
Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Qwen3.5 Plus
Qwen3 235B-A22B and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.5 Plus in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.8 to 15.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 40.4% for Qwen3 235B-A22B and 25.4% for Qwen3.5 Plus.
- Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
- Qwen3.5 Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 43.5 | 42.9 |
| Released | 2025-04 | 2026-02-16 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 1M |
| Max output | 16K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.70 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.80 | $2.40 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 59.6% | — |
| SciCode | 42.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 41% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1445 | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 621.92 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | -11.34 | 0.54 |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 52.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 12% | 22% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 9% | 17% |
| DTBench | 80.3% | 80.5% |
| LMCA | 29.3% | 36.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.85 | 146.78 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 69.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 11% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1433 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.7 | — |
Math Too close to call
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57), Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.7% | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 8.5% | 21% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 2.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 71.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1432 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 68.9% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 80.1% | 84.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.4% | 25.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 10.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.6% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1463 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1481 | — |
| LMArena French | 1445 | — |
| LMArena German | 1433 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1430 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.5% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1408 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26), Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113)
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 19.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 12.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1426 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108), Qwen3.5 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Qwen3.5 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1384 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1366 | — |
| WildBench | 86.6% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1432 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3 235B-A22B better than Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3 235B-A22B and Qwen3.5 Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 42.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3 235B-A22B or Qwen3.5 Plus?
Qwen3.5 Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.5 Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3 235B-A22B and Qwen3.5 Plus share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.