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Qwen3.5 35B-A3B vs Solar Pro4

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and Solar Pro4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.0

Rank #123 Confirmed

Solar Pro4 Upstage

42.1

Rank #121 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher in 6 categories and Solar Pro4 in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads 47.8 to 39.8.
  • Solar Pro4 is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $2 for Qwen3.5 35B-A3B.
  • Solar Pro4 accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Upstage
Noometry Index42.042.1
Released2026-02-012026-08-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K524K
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.25$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$2$1.20
Results tracked2818

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Category by category

Coding Solar Pro4 leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 33.8 (#251), Solar Pro4: 40.1 (#149)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena WebDev12541371
LMArena Coding14101437
SciCode29.3%—

Reasoning Solar Pro4 leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 24.6 (#161), Solar Pro4: 28.5 (#104)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Hard Prompts14001399
CritPt0.6%—
Chess Puzzles10%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA29.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.52—

Math Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 39.9 (#97), Solar Pro4: 38.8 (#128)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Math14041416
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions56%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202570%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 47.8 (#79), Solar Pro4: 39.8 (#129)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Expert14081427
GPQA Diamond83.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 50.0 (#127), Solar Pro4: 48.7 (#139)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Non-English13781361
LMArena Chinese14571415
LMArena French14121397
LMArena German13671364
LMArena Japanese13251309
LMArena Korean13561382
LMArena Russian13761360
LMArena Spanish13921401

Instruction Following Too close to call

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 72.8 (#128), Solar Pro4: 72.7 (#132)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Instruction Following13791377

Long Context Too close to call

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 42.4 (#127), Solar Pro4: 42.1 (#130)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Longer Query13891381

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 35B-A3B leads

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B: 57.9 (#124), Solar Pro4: 56.5 (#138)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 35B-A3BSolar Pro4
LMArena Text13951386
LMArena Creative Writing13461316
LMArena Multi-Turn13901385

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.5 35B-A3B better than Solar Pro4?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and Solar Pro4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.0 vs 42.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B or Solar Pro4?

Solar Pro4 is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 35B-A3B lists at $0.25 and $2.

Is Qwen3.5 35B-A3B or Solar Pro4 better for coding?

Solar Pro4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.1 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Solar Pro4 does, with 524K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and Solar Pro4 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has 28 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro4 has 18.

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