Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.5-Flash vs Qwen3 Coder Next

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba (Qwen)

34.3

Rank #232 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 33.7 to 22.4.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.12 / $0.80 for Qwen3 Coder Next.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3 Coder Next has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.534.3
Released2026-02-232026-02-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output66K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.12
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.80
Results tracked323

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Coder Next leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena WebDev1244—
SciCode—32.3%
WeirdML—34.4%
LMArena Coding1412—
ALE-Bench221.8—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: —, Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
Vending-Bench 2462.69—

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles21%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1403—
Mystery Game Puzzles20%—
DTBench82.9%—
LMCA29.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index143.98—

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)18.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
LMArena Math1407—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)6.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
SimpleQA Verified20.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—
LMArena Expert1407—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Non-English1385—
LMArena Chinese1446—
LMArena French1412—
LMArena German1390—
LMArena Japanese1368—
LMArena Korean1344—
LMArena Russian1379—
LMArena Spanish1400—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Instruction Following1374—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Longer Query1392—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122), Qwen3 Coder Next: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashQwen3 Coder Next
LMArena Text1397—
LMArena Creative Writing1343—
LMArena Multi-Turn1393—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.5-Flash better than Qwen3 Coder Next?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-Flash or Qwen3 Coder Next?

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder Next lists at $0.12 and $0.80.

Is Qwen3.5-Flash or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?

Qwen3 Coder Next scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.5-Flash and Qwen3 Coder Next share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.5-Flash has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.

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