Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Qwen3.8-Max

Qwen3.8-Max leads on the Visual Intelligence Index by 8.1 points, and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B scores higher on 1 of the 7 benchmarks where the two differ.

Model

Compared with

At a glance

Measure	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	Qwen3.8-Max
Visual Intelligence Index	65.7%	73.8%
Rank	#7 of 9	#4 of 9
Cost per taskMean over the benchmarks, at list price.	—	$0.151
Latency per taskEach benchmark's median, averaged.	14.3s	66.0s
Tokens per task	25,755	68,932
Input / 1M tokens	—	$2.00
Output / 1M tokens	—	$6.00
Context window	256K	1M
Availability	Open weights	Proprietary

Each capability index is a weighted mean of the benchmarks that contribute to the capability.

Capability	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Perception	65.3%	72.0%	−6.7
Spatial Reasoning	65.8%	74.3%	−8.5
Temporal Reasoning	65.5%	73.6%	−8.0
Action / Event Understanding	62.2%	71.5%	−9.3
Causal Reasoning	70.1%	78.2%	−8.1
Information Retrieval	63.6%	72.0%	−8.4

Benchmark	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	Qwen3.8-Max	Lead
Video-MME v2	42.5%	60.2%	−17.8
LVBench	64.4%	58.9%	+5.5
Perception Test	66.7%	83.9%	−17.2
NExT-QA	83.4%	87.6%	−4.2
Q-Bench Video	66.9%	69.0%	−2.1
EgoSchema	77.2%	85.2%	−8.0
UCF101-AD	41.3%	56.5%	−15.2

4.5/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable1.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — supported
Self-hostable — supported
Multimodal input1.0: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable0.5: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — not supported

3.5/ 5

Reachable1.0: There is an endpoint you can call without hosting anything.
First-party API — supported
Third-party API — supported
Portable0.0: You can run it yourself, and are not tied to one vendor.
Open weights — not supported
Self-hostable — not supported
Multimodal input0.5: It takes the footage directly, rather than frames you extracted.
Video ingestion — supported
Audio — not supported
Programmable1.0: Output you can parse, and tools it can call on its own.
Structured output — supported
Tool calling — supported
Operable1.0: Usable interactively and in bulk, not only one call at a time.
Streaming — supported
Batch API — supported