Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Qwen3.5 397B A17B from Alibaba Cloud is a top-tier model with excellent reasoning, strong agentic scores, multimodal support, and outstanding instruction-following benchmarks at a competitive price — though UK businesses should factor in provider accessibility when considering it for production deployments.
Assessment date: March 14, 2026
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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 state-of-the-art performance comparable to leading-edge models across a wide range of tasks, including language understanding, logical reasoning, code generation, agent-based tasks, image understanding, video understanding, and graphical user interface (GUI) interactions. With its robust code-generation and agent capabilities, the model exhibits strong generalization across diverse agent.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image + Video → Text |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Parameters | 397B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.39 | $0.000390 |
| Output | $2.34 | $0.002340 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
