# 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.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/o1-mini-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## 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.

## Snapshot

| | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.0 | 42.0 |
| Rank | 235 | 123 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1362 | 1410 |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1254 |
| SciCode | — | 29.3% |
| WeirdML | 36.3% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 89% | — |
| MBPP+ | 78.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |

## Reasoning

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1400 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.82 | 142.52 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 18.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 14% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 10% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 72.3% | — |
| DTBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | — | 29.5% |
| LiveBench | 57.8% | — |

## Math

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 46.9% | 70% |
| LMArena Math | 1358 | 1404 |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 56% |
| LiveBench Math | 62% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 89.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 62.4% | 83.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1316 | 1408 |
| Confabulations | 18.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.5% |

## Multilingual

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1289 | 1378 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1314 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1293 | 1412 |
| LMArena German | 1278 | 1367 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1245 | 1325 |
| LMArena Korean | 1223 | 1356 |
| LMArena Russian | 1283 | 1376 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1303 | 1392 |

## Instruction Following

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1304 | 1379 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 65.4% | — |

## Long Context

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1320 | 1389 |

## Writing & Preference

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

| Benchmark | o1-mini | Qwen3.5 35B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1317 | 1395 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1244 | 1346 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1314 | 1390 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 64.9% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 40.9% | — |

## FAQ

### 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.