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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Inkling

Updated October 21, 2026. 41 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

Replace Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Replace Inkling
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen
Coding
7.7
Overall
19.3
Output $/M
$1.00
0
T InklingThinking Machines
Coding
49.7
Overall
25.0
Output $/M
$4.05
41
vs boards won of 41 shared

Decision reading

Pick Inkling for coding: it scores 49.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 7.7 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B.

Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B when output tokens cost 4.0x less.

Model AQwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen7.7/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BInklingThinking Machines49.7/1002 independent benchmarks$0.76 per solved task
Shared results
41
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B only
4
Inkling only
61
Like-for-like categories
6 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 7.7 from 1 benchmark, Inkling 49.7 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 18.1 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena WebDev: React: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 1238 against Inkling 1404, 27.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B $1.00 against Inkling $4.05 per million output tokens, 4.0x apart.
Context window
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B takes 262K tokens, Inkling 524K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryQwen3.5-35B-A3BBarsInklingTies
Coding06
Intelligence02
Reasoning06
Math03
Knowledge04
General020
All shared boards041
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
Coding benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
LiveBench codingNot measured64.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena WebDev12541414Inkling
AA Coding IndexNot measured52.1Only Inkling measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured85.5%Only Inkling measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured77.6%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured0.5%Only Inkling measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured19.2%Only Inkling measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured11.8%Only Inkling measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured14.9%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured47.6%Only Inkling measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured7.3%Only Inkling measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured26.1%Only Inkling measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured66.8%Only Inkling measured
SciCodeNot measured47.0%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)26.5%Not measuredOnly Qwen3.5-35B-A3B measured
FrontierCodeNot measured14.0%Only Inkling measured
FrontierSWENot measured4.1%Only Inkling measured
WeirdMLNot measured32.3%Only Inkling measured
ALE-Bench221.8946.0Inkling
LMArena Text: coding14101466Inkling
LMArena Text: software and IT14151465Inkling
LMArena WebDev: React12381404Inkling
LMArena WebDev: HTML13011399Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
AA Intelligence Index19.325.0Inkling
Epoch Capabilities Index142.5148.4Inkling
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured22.5Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1196Only Inkling measured
LiveBench researchNot measured59.9%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench browserNot measured16.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured14.1%Only Inkling measured
SREBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured46.6%Only Inkling measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured15.3%Only Inkling measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured28.4%Only Inkling measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured3.8%Only Inkling measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured38.4%Only Inkling measured
τ²-Bench Telecom89.2%Not measuredOnly Qwen3.5-35B-A3B measured
APEX-AgentsNot measured33.8%Only Inkling measured
Vending-Bench 2$463Not measuredOnly Qwen3.5-35B-A3B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
Reasoning benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured87.1%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench reasoningNot measured78.3%Only Inkling measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured78.5%Only Inkling measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)84.5%87.2%Inkling
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)21.0%31.9%Inkling
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)83.5%88.3%Inkling
ARC-AGINot measured79.5%Only Inkling measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured36.5%Only Inkling measured
SimpleBenchNot measured50.0%Only Inkling measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured21.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14001451Inkling
LMArena Text: expert14081466Inkling
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14111448Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
OTIS Mock AIME70.0%88.9%Inkling
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured33.3%Only Inkling measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured4.9%Only Inkling measured
ProofBenchNot measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: math14041479Inkling
LMArena Text: mathematical work14101460Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
MMLU ProNot measured86.3%Only Inkling measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured83.0%Only Inkling measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured68.6%Only Inkling measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured75.3%Only Inkling measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured64.0%Only Inkling measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured41.2%Only Inkling measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured40.3%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: science14131455Inkling
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14211447Inkling
LMArena Text: legal and government13991448Inkling
LMArena Text: business and finance13941438Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1224Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1200Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1166Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1160Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1161Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1206Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1109Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1089Only Inkling measured
LiveBench designNot measured58.3%Only Inkling measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index020
General benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
Vals IndexNot measured29.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench data analysisNot measured72.8%Only Inkling measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured58.5%Only Inkling measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured36.5%Only Inkling measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured85.4%Only Inkling measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured49.4%Only Inkling measured
IFBench72.5%Not measuredOnly Qwen3.5-35B-A3B measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)72.0%77.3%Inkling
DTBench80.0%87.5%Inkling
LMCA29.5%37.6%Inkling
LMArena Text13951442Inkling
LMArena Text: instruction following13791425Inkling
LMArena Text: creative writing13471390Inkling
LMArena Text: English14071442Inkling
LMArena Text: non-English13781434Inkling
LMArena Text: Chinese14571493Inkling
LMArena Text: German13671445Inkling
LMArena Text: Japanese13261429Inkling
LMArena Text: Korean13551403Inkling
LMArena Text: French14121455Inkling
LMArena Text: Spanish13901449Inkling
LMArena Text: Russian13761430Inkling
LMArena Text: Polish13851450Inkling
LMArena Text: multi-turn13901437Inkling
LMArena Text: longer queries13891435Inkling
LMArena Text: writing and language13651404Inkling
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13471394Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
BenchmarkQwen3.5-35B-A3BInklingLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.0006Fits in one request
Inkling$0.0030Fits in one request

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.010Fits in one request
Inkling$0.062Fits in one request

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.038Fits in one request
Inkling$0.240Fits in one request

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Qwen3.5-35B-A3B and Inkling
SpecificationQwen3.5-35B-A3BThinking Machines Inkling
MakerQwenThinking Machines
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedFebruary 25, 2026July 17, 2026
Context window262K524K
Input $/Mtok$0.14$1.00
Output $/Mtok$1.00$4.05
Coding index7.749.7
Independent measurements behind it12
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.76
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Qwen3.5-35B-A3B better than Inkling for coding?

Pick Inkling for coding: it scores 49.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 7.7 for Qwen3.5-35B-A3B. Pick Qwen3.5-35B-A3B when output tokens cost 4.0x less.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B or Inkling?

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens; Inkling costs $1.00 and $4.05. Cost per solved task is known for Inkling only.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B or Inkling?

Inkling, with 524K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Inkling comparison based on?

41 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Qwen3.5-35B-A3B's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Inkling's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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