Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.5 Plus vs QwQ-32B

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.9

Rank #106 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.5 Plus scores higher in 3 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 49.6 to 38.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.939.8
Released2026-02-162024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.40—
Output $ / M tokens$2.40—
Results tracked1536

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Plus: —, QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench621.92—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Plus: —, QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
Vending-Bench 20.54—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.8 (#74), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles22%5%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.78137.6
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench80.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA36.4%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Plus: 49.6 (#61), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)21%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#83), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond84.8%65.3%
SimpleQA Verified25.4%—
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.7%—
LMArena Expert—1324

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Plus: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Plus: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3.5 Plus: 43.0 (#113), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
CL-bench19.8%—
CL-bench Life12.4%—
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Plus: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 PlusQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.5 Plus better than QwQ-32B?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.5 Plus and QwQ-32B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.5 Plus has 15 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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