Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Compare Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking and Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B, both from Qwen, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking has the edge — bigger model tier.
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Input
$1.20
Output
$6.00
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Input
$0.25
4.8× cheaper
Output
$2.00
3.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 4.8× input, 3.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking uses 137.1x more emoji
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
61%Vocabulary51%
15wSentence Length15w
0.23Hedging0.39
5.2Bold6.8
3.9Lists4.8
1.37Emoji0.00
1.22Headings0.84
0.04Transitions0.14
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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