Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B

qwen · Released Feb 16, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #48 / 523
72.7 Our Score
Speed #178 / 236
52.5 tokens / sec
Input #324 / 523
$0.390 per 1M tokens
Output #374 / 523
$2.34 per 1M tokens
Context #78 / 523
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Qwen: Qwen3.5 397B A17B sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #48 of 523 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.390 input and $2.34 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

Qwen3.5 397B A17B is a large multimodal model supporting text, image, and video with strong reasoning and solid instruction-following at a competitive price. Its broad capability breadth and 262K context window make it a versatile option, though Western business support for Qwen/Alibaba models is a practical consideration.

Assessed April 24, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence7Technical7.1Value7.5Content6.5
Intelligence 7/10
Technical 7.1/10
Content 6.5/10
Value 7.5/10

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..

397B Parameters

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

40.1 Intelligence Index
37.4 Coding Index
59.8 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 86.1% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 18.8% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 41.1% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 35.6% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 83.9% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 51.6% Instruction following
LCR 58% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID qwen/qwen3.5-397b-a17b
Providerqwen
Release Date February 16, 2026
Context Length262,144 tokens
Max Completion65,536 tokens
Status Active

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.

84.1%
Avg Uptime
1,175ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
83 tok/s
Best Throughput
7/7
Active Endpoints
Available via: Chutes, Alibaba, AtlasCloud, Morph, Novita, Together, Parasail

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