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Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B) vs Qwen3-Max-Instruct

Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B) · Alibaba, released 2026-02-25
Qwen3-Max-Instruct · Alibaba, released 2025-09-24

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-07-26 · Methodology · Data Sources

Head-to-head

Measured on 5 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B) leads on 4, Qwen3-Max-Instruct leads on 1.

Benchmark	Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)	Qwen3-Max-Instruct	Leads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)	144.1	143.8	Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
GPQA Diamond	0.838	0.726	Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)
MATH Level 5	Not measured	0.971	Not measured on both
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	0.856	0.733	Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)
FrontierMath	0.062	Not measured	Not measured on both
FrontierMath Tier 4	0.000	Not measured	Not measured on both
SimpleQA Verified	0.198	0.675	Qwen3-Max-Instruct
Chess Puzzles	0.200	0.040	Qwen 3.5 Flash (hosted 35B-A3B)

Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

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