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Qwen3.5 35B-A3B vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

Updated November 2026

Verdict

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 69.9 vs 54.5. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B wins 3 and MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B wins 0. Both need about 22.7 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization. Only Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has a hosted API on OpenRouter ($0.24 per million tokens); the other has to be self-hosted.

Pick Qwen3.5 35B-A3B if…

you want the strongest model overall
you mostly write code
you need math and reasoning
you want a hosted API rather than running it yourself
you want the more widely used model (more quantized builds and community support)

Pick MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B if…

No clear advantage in the data we have.

Specifications

	Qwen3.5 35B-A3B	MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
Small LM Index	69.9 (likely 69–71)	54.5 (likely 50–59)
Lab	Alibaba (Qwen) · China	OpenBMB (MiniCPM) · China
Released	2026-02-24	2026-10-07
Parameters	35B (3B active, MoE)	35.2B (3B active, MoE)
Memory at 4-bit	~22.6 GB	~22.7 GB
Context window	262K tokens	262K tokens
Input	text, image, video	text, image, video
Reasoning	Hybrid (thinking on/off)	Hybrid (thinking on/off)
License	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
API price / 1M tokens	$0.24 ($0.065 in, $0.75 out)	Self-host only
Hugging Face downloads (30 days)	1.7M	490.1K

Benchmarks

Higher is better. Bold marks the winner where both labs report a score. ≈ marks the index model's estimate for a score that wasn't reported, ✓ an independent measurement and * a score measured by another lab.

Benchmark	Qwen3.5 35B-A3B	MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
MMLU-Pro Knowledge	85.3	83.5
GPQA Diamond Knowledge	84.2	≈ 68
Humanity's Last Exam Reasoning	22.4	≈ 8
AIME Math	91.0	76.5
LiveCodeBench Coding	74.6	56.6
SWE-bench Verified Coding	70.0	≈ 37
Terminal-Bench Agentic	40.5	—
τ²-Bench Agentic	—	84.7
IFBench Instruction following	—	47.7
MMMU-Pro Vision	75.1	—
BFCL Agentic	—	60.1

Scores are mostly reported by each lab with its own settings, so small gaps are noise. See the methodology. Open in the interactive comparison to add more models.

Questions

Which is better, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B or MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.5 35B-A3B scores higher on the Small LM Index: 69.9 vs 54.5. On the 3 benchmarks both labs report, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B wins 3 and MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B wins 0.

Which is cheaper to run?

Only Qwen3.5 35B-A3B has a hosted API on OpenRouter ($0.24 per million tokens); the other has to be self-hosted. Both need about 22.7 GB of memory at 4-bit quantization.

Which has the longer context window?

Both have a 262K-token context window.

Can I use Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B commercially?

Both are released under the Apache-2.0 license. Apache 2.0 and MIT allow commercial use; other licenses can add conditions, so read the license before shipping a product.