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VERIFIEDOct 142026
Is Qwen3 5 35B A3b state of the art?
No.Best recorded rank is #75 in Science.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Qwen3 5 35B A3b from Alibaba / Qwen. Best recorded rank is #75 in Science. Last listed at #75 in Science on 2026-02-24. That board does not award a crown.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low
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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Ranked #121 in General LLM.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot
SourceScoreDateTypeReceipt
LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall)
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1393.8350972111339 1389.6–1398.12026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts)
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1411.9372660784886 1406.8–1417.12026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text (style-controlled, math)
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1398.4771152443154 1384.8–1412.12026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
GPQA Diamond
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
0.8345959595959596 0.8–0.92026-02-24INDEP.snap_fee7890b5dd0
LMArena Text (style-controlled, coding)
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1434.6577268518438 1427.6–1441.72026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena WebDev
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1253.9153760215115 1236.5–1271.32026-10-08INDEP.snap_6949d6fb2488
LMArena Text (style-controlled, longer query)
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1398.6407965393903 1392.3–1404.92026-10-08INDEP.snap_368d64825bf4
LMArena Text factuality
qwen3.5-35b-a3b
1407.3643651395369 1403.5–1411.22026-10-08INDEP.snap_f051faf18005
Reign history

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Where it is not the crown

CategoryThis modelWhy
General LLMNot SOTA · #121Ranked #121 in General LLM.
ReasoningNot SOTA · #125Ranked #125 in Reasoning.
MathNot SOTA · #112Ranked #112 in Math.
ScienceNot SOTA · #75Last listed at #75 in Science on 2026-02-24. That board does not award a crown.
CodingNot SOTA · #126Ranked #126 in Coding.
Coding › Web devNot SOTA · #98Ranked #98 in Coding › Web dev.
Long contextNot SOTA · #124Ranked #124 in Long context.
FactualityNot SOTA · #104Ranked #104 in Factuality.