Qwen3.5-Plus Tops Benchmarks Cheaply
Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-Plus, dominating open-source benchmarks in multimodal understanding, reasoning, coding, and agents, rivaling closed models like GPT-5.2. Priced at 0.8 RMB per million tokens, it's 18x cheaper than Gemini 3 Pro. Efficient design uses 39.7B parameters (17B active) for superior performance.