Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 vs Qwen3.5-4B Comparison

Comparing Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 and Qwen3.5-4B across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

10 benchmarks

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 outperforms in 6 benchmarks (GPQA, Include, MMLU-Pro, MMLU-ProX, MMLU-Redux, SuperGPQA), while Qwen3.5-4B is better at 4 benchmarks (HMMT25, IFEval, LiveCodeBench v6, PolyMATH).

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 has a slight edge in benchmark performance.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$0.80
Best providerFireworks
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

231.0B diff

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 has 231.0B more parameters than Qwen3.5-4B, making it 5775.0% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
235.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B
4.0Bparameters
235.0B
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
4.0B
Qwen3.5-4B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 specifies input context (262,144 tokens). Only Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Input262,144 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
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Qwen3.5-4B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen3.5-4B supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 does not.

Qwen3.5-4B can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3.5-4B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen3.5-4B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 was released on 2025-07-22, while Qwen3.5-4B was released on 2026-03-02.

Qwen3.5-4B is 7 months newer than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507.

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Jul 22, 2025

7 months ago

Qwen3.5-4B

Mar 2, 2026

1 weeks ago

7mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Larger context window (262,144 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (77.5% vs 76.2%)
Higher Include score (79.5% vs 71.0%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (83.0% vs 79.1%)
Higher MMLU-ProX score (79.4% vs 71.5%)
Higher MMLU-Redux score (93.1% vs 88.8%)
Higher SuperGPQA score (62.6% vs 52.9%)
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Qwen3.5-4B

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Supports multimodal inputs
Higher HMMT25 score (76.8% vs 55.4%)
Higher IFEval score (89.8% vs 88.7%)
Higher LiveCodeBench v6 score (55.8% vs 51.8%)
Higher PolyMATH score (51.1% vs 50.2%)

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
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Qwen3.5-4B