Model comparison

Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Trinity Large Thinking

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #83 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.1

Rank #180 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher in 7 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 48.5 to 34.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 42.4% for Qwen3 235B-A22B and 36.1% for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.80 per million input/output tokens, against $0.70 / $2.80 for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Trinity Large Thinking accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Qwen3 235B-A22B and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Qwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Arcee AI
Noometry Index43.238.1
Released2025-042026-04-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K262K
Max output16K80K
Input $ / M tokens$0.70$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$2.80$0.80
Results tracked4924

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 43.8 (#72), Trinity Large Thinking: 33.8 (#238)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
SciCode42.4%36.1%
LMArena Coding14451381
Aider Polyglot59.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1238
WeirdML41%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.7 (#48), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard52.1%—
Vending-Bench 2-11.34—

Reasoning Too close to call

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.8 (#302), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.3 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
CritPt0%0.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14331350
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark69.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
ARC-AGI-111%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles9%—
DTBench80.3%—
LMCA29.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.87—
ForecastBench59.7—

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 48.5 (#51), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.9 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math14311366
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.7%—
Omni-MATH71.8%—
MATH Level 568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)8.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.5 (#67), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.3 (#107)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%6.9%
LMArena Expert14601359
GPQA Diamond80.1%—
SimpleQA Verified40.4%—
MMLU-Pro84.4%—
Confabulations15.6%—
GPQA (HELM)72.7%—

Multilingual Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.5 (#84), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.4 (#155)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English14101325
LMArena Chinese14811372
LMArena French14451374
LMArena German14321356
LMArena Japanese14001312
LMArena Korean13911304
LMArena Russian14111338
LMArena Spanish14291356

Instruction Following Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.8 (#132), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.7 (#157)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following14081334
IFEval83.5%—

Long Context Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#25), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.2 (#139)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query14261355
Fiction.LiveBench75%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.8 (#103), Trinity Large Thinking: 54.0 (#152)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3 235B-A22BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text14191340
LMArena Creative Writing13841321
LMArena Multi-Turn14321342
Short-Story Creative Writing83%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1366—
WildBench86.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 235B-A22B better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Trinity Large Thinking costs 3.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Qwen3 235B-A22B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 235B-A22B or Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B-A22B lists at $0.70 and $2.80.

Is Qwen3 235B-A22B or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Qwen3 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.8 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Trinity Large Thinking does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 235B-A22B and Trinity Large Thinking share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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