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Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Qwen · released Feb 16, 2026

Open weightsReasoningTool useStructured outputVisionVideo in

The Qwen3.5 series 397B-A17B native vision-language model is built on a hybrid architecture that integrates a linear attention mechanism with a sparse mixture-of-experts model, achieving higher inference efficiency. It delivers...

Specification

Context window
262K
Max output
66K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
403.4B
Licence
apache-2.0
Serving providers
11
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

34.3

80th percentile

Coding

48.2

Coding Index

Agentic

19.8

Agentic Index

Output speed

116 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

415ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.21

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    95.6%
  • GPQA Diamond
    89.3%
  • IFBench
    78.8%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    72.7%
  • SciCode
    42.0%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    40.9%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    29.0%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)95.6%
GPQA Diamond89.3%
IFBench78.8%
AA-LCR (long context)72.7%
SciCode42.0%
Terminal-Bench Hard40.9%
Humanity's Last Exam29.0%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Qwen3.5-27B34.6
M2.534.5
GLM 4.734.5
Hy3 preview34.4
Qwen3.5 397B A17B34.3
LongCat 2.033.9
KAT-Coder-Pro V233.9
Kimi K2 Thinking33.5

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence80th
Coding63th
Agentic34th
Terminal work87th
Arena Elo64th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.39
Output / 1M tokens
$2.34
Cached input / 1M
Not offered
Blended 3:1
$0.877

One task, estimated

$0.21

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,216
Win rate
56.7%
Strongest at
3D scenes
Tournaments
960

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,175–1,225 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
3D scenes121656.7%
Websites121352.6%
Data visualisation120253.2%
UI components119851.4%
SVG118856.1%
Game development118150.1%