Qwen3.5 35B A3B vs DeepSeek V3

Side-by-side comparison of specifications, capabilities, and pricing.

	Qwen3.5 35B A3B Alibaba	DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek
Released	2026-02-24	2024-12-26
Context window	262K	64k
Parameters	35B	671B
Architecture	mixture of experts	mixture of experts
License	Apache 2.0	Open Source
Knowledge cutoff	—	2024-04
Capabilities
Vision
Multimodal
Reasoning
Function calling
Tool use
Structured Outputs
Code execution
Availability
Providers	OpenRouter	DeepInfra Fireworks AI DeepSeek Platform Microsoft Foundry OpenRouter NVIDIA NIM AWS Bedrock Together AI Bitdeer AI SiliconFlow Replicate API

Benchmarks

Google-Proof Q&A84.5—HellaSwag—95.7HumanEval—85.5Massive Multitask Language Understanding—88.5LiveCodeBench—49.6Aider Polyglot—48.4BigCodeBench—50.0Chatbot Arena—1302.0MMLU PRO—75.9

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