
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B vs Llama 4 Scout: 3B Active Parameters vs 17B - Does 5.7x More Compute Actually Win?
David vs Goliath: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B activates 3B parameters and beats Llama 4 Scout's 17B active on MMLU-Pro, GPQA, and coding benchmarks - but Scout's 10M context window and native multimodal support tell a different story.