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.
Our Verdict
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17BWinner
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3BRunner-up
Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B. In 2 blind votes, Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Input
$0.25
2.4× cheaper
Output
$2.00
1.8× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Input
$0.60
Output
$3.60
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 2.4× input, 1.8× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
89%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B uses 22.8x more emoji
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
51%Vocabulary54%
15wSentence Length14w
0.39Hedging0.39
6.8Bold6.9
4.8Lists4.2
0.00Emoji0.23
0.84Headings0.93
0.14Transitions0.17
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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