Qwen3.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Qwen3.5 35B A3B and Qwen3.8 Max both come from Alibaba, Qwen3.5 35B A3B was released in March 2026, and Qwen3.8 Max followed 5 months later in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 35 billion for Qwen3.5 35B A3B.
The two models share 12 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 11 of them, Qwen3.5 35B A3B on 1. The widest gaps are on OSWorld-Verified, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 86.1% against 54.5%; WideSearch, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 81.9% against 57.1%. Averaged across everything we track, Qwen3.5 35B A3B sits at 69.0% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Qwen3.8 Max is available through an API at $2.50 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.5 35B A3B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Qwen3.5 35B A3B | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Release Date | March 1, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 35B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 69.0% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| OSWorld-Verified | 54.5% | 86.1% |
| WideSearch | 57.1% | 81.9% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 68.6% | 84.5% |
| ERQA | 64.8% | 77.8% |
| IFBench | 70.2% | 82.8% |
| LVBench | 71.4% | 81.8% |
| GPQA | 84.2% | 92.6% |
| LongBench v2 | 59.0% | 66.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.1% | 82.3% |
| RealWorldQA | 84.1% | 88.0% |
| VideoMME w sub. | 86.6% | 90.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 47.4% | 43.6% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Max leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Qwen3.5 35B A3B — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Qwen3.8 Max is newer: released 8/2/2026 vs 3/1/2026.
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