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Alibaba (Qwen)

Qwen3.5

Released Feb 16, 2026 · knowledge cutoff unpublished

Status
Superseded
Location
China
Modality
Text
Context window
262K
Max output
66K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$0.54 / $3.40
Cost per task
$0.33
Open weights
Yes
Benchmarks3 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

87.8%

GPQA Diamond

88.4%

SWE-bench Verified

76.4%

Terminal-Bench 2.1

AIME (latest)

Humanity's Last Exam

LMArena Elo

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Very few active parameters per token, so it serves cheaply for its capability
  • Open weights that fine-tune well and run on commodity inference stacks
  • Strong multilingual coverage carried over from the Qwen line

Weaknesses

  • Text-only, so it can't take screenshots, diagrams or PDFs
  • No first-party API — behavior and speed depend entirely on which host you pick

Figures are for the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B open release. MMLU-Pro 87.8 / GPQA 88.4 / SWE-bench 76.4 third-party (LLM-Stats/DeepInfra). Pricing is the DeepInfra hosted FP8 rate — no first-party API for the open weights.

For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Not researched

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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