Qwen3.5 397B A17B: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price
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The Qwen3.5 397B A17B release offers 2 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 2 models.
- For intelligence, the top model of Qwen3.5 397B A17B is Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning) at 21 (estimated).
- For output speed, the fastest model is Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) at 86 t/s.
- For latency, Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning) at 2.16s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) at $0.47 offers the lowest cost per task.
| Input modality | Supports: text and image |
|---|---|
| Output modality | Supports: text |
| Context window | 262k ~393 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font |
| Total parameters | 397B |
| Active parameters | 17B Number of parameters active per token during inference |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| Model weights | Hugging Face |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
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Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
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Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better
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Weights | Provider Benchmarks | ||||||||
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| Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning) |  Alibaba | 21 | 397B 17B active at inference time | 262k | $0.9 | 82 |   +2 | ||
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) | Alibaba | 18 | 397B 17B active at inference time | 262k | $0.9 | 86 |  +4 |