Qwen 3.6 35B A3B vs Qwen 3.5 122B A10B

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/22/2026

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Key Points

  • A user on Reddit reports that Qwen 3.5 122B A10B significantly outperforms Qwen 3.6 35B A3B on their tasks.
  • They observed that Qwen 3.6 seems to lose accuracy or “get lost” when the task requires multiple additional steps.
  • The user is questioning whether they are using Qwen 3.6 incorrectly, despite the impression that it performs well on some benchmarks.
  • They ask for advice to help them achieve the expected speed/performance from Qwen 3.6.
  • Overall, the post is a community request for troubleshooting model usage and configuration rather than a formal evaluation or new release.

Does anyone else have the same experience comparing these two - for me 3.5 122B outperforms 3.6 by a large margin. 3.6 gets lost as long as the task requires a couple of more steps.

I'm asking because I got the impression that it overperforms in some benchmarks, and I'm thinking that maybe I'm doing something wrong? My experience shows quite the contrary. Would be great to benefit from the speed if I can fix it, so if you have any advice to share let me know.

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