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Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

Qwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Vendorqwenqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score47.954.9
Input Price$0.14/M$0.26/M
Output Price$1.00/M$2.08/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output81,92065,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index48.353.3
ai_index_agentic-34.2
ai_index_coding-75.4

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.39 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.78, so Qwen3.5-35B-A3B is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads 54.9 to 47.9.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B scores higher on 1 (Code Completion), Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SQL Generation 136 155
Code Review 135 148
Code Completion 130 129
Code Refactoring 135 145
Bug Fixing 139 156
Unit Test Generation 127 140
Code Documentation 130 133
Regex Writing 124 129
CI/CD Pipelines 123 132
Frontend Component Design 127 137
Data Analysis 131 152
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 130 142
ETL Scripting 129 139
JSON Extraction 131 143
Bulk Data Labeling 129 133
OCR / Document Parsing 130 139
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 139
Long-Document Summarization 137 143
Short-Form Summarization 126 128
Blog Post Writing 124 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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