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Qwen3.5 Flash

AI model Released Feb 23, 2026

Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output: 65,536 tokens
Open weights: No

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Qwen3.5 Flash 1397.1 Qwen3.5-Flash · 95% interval 1393.4–1400.7 · 61,776 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Test version

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,446.07 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.06 – 1,456.09

3673 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: chinese
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,411.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.14 – 1,417.40

17729 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: coding
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,343.36 rating

Confidence interval: 1,336.44 – 1,350.28

9717 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: creative_writing
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,404.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.51 – 1,409.30

26633 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: english
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,376.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.38 – 1,381.14

45638 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.16 – 1,415.74

5847 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: expert
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,413.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.61 – 1,427.72

2254 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: french
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,390.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,372.07 – 1,409.50

1072 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: german
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,403.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.06 – 1,407.80

40121 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,408.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.00 – 1,414.21

18214 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,394.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.16 – 1,400.72

12194 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,347.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,341.07 – 1,353.70

12636 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,397.39 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.34 – 1,406.44

4801 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,415.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.55 – 1,421.87

9836 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,412.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,402.22 – 1,423.75

3357 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.65 – 1,416.64

4378 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,416.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.18 – 1,421.19

25049 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,369.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,363.40 – 1,375.14

14623 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,374.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.60 – 1,380.20

20269 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: instruction_following
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,368.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,344.62 – 1,392.19

666 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: japanese
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,343.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,324.20 – 1,362.32

1075 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: korean
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,391.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.54 – 1,396.88

25673 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: longer_query
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,397.05 – 1,418.11

3388 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: math
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,392.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.03 – 1,399.18

10990 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: multi_turn
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,384.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.55 – 1,389.32

35143 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: non_english
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,397.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.45 – 1,400.74

61776 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: overall
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,375.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,359.62 – 1,392.36

1288 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: polish
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,379.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,372.31 – 1,387.39

7213 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: russian
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,399.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,385.09 – 1,413.29

2054 votes

Oct 28, 2026

Category: spanish
Evaluated configuration: Qwen3.5-Flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,445.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,435.58 – 1,455.62

3673 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: chinese
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,411.83 rating

Confidence interval: 1,406.19 – 1,417.47

17719 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: coding
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,343.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,336.23 – 1,350.07

9752 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: creative_writing
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,404.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.57 – 1,409.37

26631 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: english
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,376.20 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.31 – 1,381.08

45675 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.84 – 1,415.47

5839 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: expert
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,412.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.32 – 1,426.50

2267 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: french
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,390.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,371.97 – 1,409.47

1075 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: german
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,403.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,399.06 – 1,407.82

40131 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,408.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,403.10 – 1,414.32

18209 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,394.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.23 – 1,400.80

12205 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,347.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.68 – 1,353.33

12642 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,397.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,388.38 – 1,406.49

4813 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,415.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,408.85 – 1,422.18

9839 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,412.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,401.82 – 1,423.40

3358 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,398.01 – 1,417.00

4388 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,416.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,411.33 – 1,421.35

25042 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,368.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,362.97 – 1,374.72

14664 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,374.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,369.24 – 1,379.85

20300 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: instruction_following
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,368.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,344.50 – 1,392.31

665 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: japanese
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,343.76 rating

Confidence interval: 1,324.66 – 1,362.86

1075 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: korean
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,391.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,386.57 – 1,396.92

25685 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: longer_query
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,407.51 rating

Confidence interval: 1,396.97 – 1,418.06

3386 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: math
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,392.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,385.85 – 1,399.02

10982 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: multi_turn
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,384.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,380.46 – 1,389.24

35171 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: non_english
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,397.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,393.37 – 1,400.66

61802 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: overall
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,376.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,359.84 – 1,392.64

1286 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: polish
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,379.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,372.06 – 1,387.16

7223 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: russian
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Qwen3.5 Flash

1,399.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,385.60 – 1,413.87

2052 votes

Oct 15, 2026

Category: spanish
Evaluated configuration: qwen3.5-flash
Evaluation type: human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Qwen3.5 Flash

Closed weights. No supported local deployment or GPU requirement is published.

API cost

USD / month

Input tokens / monthOutput tokens / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Qwen3.5 Flash

Provider offer

Capabilities

Context window: 1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output: 65,536 tokens
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Open weights: No
Model license: Proprietary

Input modalities

text
image
video

Output modalities

text