Model comparison

Qwen3.5-Flash vs Trinity Large Thinking

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.5

Rank #112 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher in 7 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 33.7 to 16.9.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.40 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.80 for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Qwen3.5-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Trinity Large Thinking has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.5-Flash and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Qwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Arcee AI
Noometry Index42.538.6
Released2026-02-232026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output66K80K
Input $ / M tokens$0.10$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.40$0.80
Results tracked3224

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Qwen3.5-Flash: 34.2 (#242), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena WebDev12441238
LMArena Coding14121381
SciCode—36.1%
ALE-Bench221.8—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.5-Flash: —, Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
Vending-Bench 2462.69—

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.7 (#72), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Hard Prompts14031350
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles21%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles20%—
DTBench82.9%—
LMCA29.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index143.98—

Math Too close to call

Qwen3.5-Flash: 37.4 (#158), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math14071366
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)18.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)6.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#93), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.5%6.9%
LMArena Expert14071360
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
SimpleQA Verified20.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.5 (#121), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English13851325
LMArena Chinese14461373
LMArena French14121374
LMArena German13901356
LMArena Japanese13681311
LMArena Korean13441306
LMArena Russian13791337
LMArena Spanish14001357

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.6 (#139), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following13741334

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#124), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query13921355

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Qwen3.5-Flash: 57.9 (#122), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.5-FlashTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text13971340
LMArena Creative Writing13431320
LMArena Multi-Turn13931342

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.5-Flash better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.5 to 38.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.5-Flash or Trinity Large Thinking?

Qwen3.5-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Trinity Large Thinking lists at $0.25 and $0.80.

Is Qwen3.5-Flash or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.2 vs 34.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.5-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.5-Flash and Trinity Large Thinking share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.5-Flash has 32 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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