Qwen3 14B vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Wins 0 of 4 benchmarks
$0.48 / task
Wins 2 of 4 benchmarks
Different efforts: non-thinking · thinking
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam: Very hard expert questions across many fields, written to stump today’s models
Qwen3 14B4.1
Qwen3.6 35B A3B22.2
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Qwen3 14B0
Qwen3.6 35B A3B0
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Qwen3 14B0.2
Qwen3.6 35B A3B5.2
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Qwen3 14B—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B75

Specs

SpecQwen3 14BQwen3.6 35B A3B
Input, per 1M$0.35$0.25
Output, per 1M$1.40$1.49
Cost per task?—$0.48
Speed, tok/s73138
Context33K262K
WeightsOpenOpen
ReleasedApr 2025Apr 2026
Memory (4-bit)7.4 GB22 GB
LicenceApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Commercial useAllowedAllowed
See images—✓
Read PDFs——
Hear audio——
Watch video—✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web??
Run code??
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Qwen3 14B → Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Memory (4-bit): 7.4 GB → 22 GB
Qwen3.6 35B A3B → Qwen3 14B
Context: 262K → 33K
No image input