Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Compare Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B, both from Qwen, in 2 community votes, qwen: qwen3.5 397b a17b wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B or Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B?
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 2 blind community votes on Rival. Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25/M input tokens vs $0.6/M for Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. Context windows: 262K vs 262K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B and Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is made by qwen while Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B is from qwen. Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B has a 262K token context window compared to Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B's 262K. On pricing, Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B costs $0.25/M input tokens vs $0.6/M for Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. In community voting, In 2 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 2 community votes, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 2+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 2.4× input, 1.8× output
Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. In 2 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Style Comparison
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 22.8x more emoji
