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Ornith 1.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B (Ornith Ai) and Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 19 September 2026

As of 19 September 2026, Ornith 1.5 35B A3B holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#37 vs #40).

Which should you choose?

Choose Ornith 1.5 35B A3B if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #37 against #40 (65.9 vs 65.1 points).
  • you want the more recently listed model — Ornith 1.5 35B A3B was listed 18 August 2026, Qwen3.5 397B A17B 16 February 2026.

Choose Qwen3.5 397B A17B if…

  • you want provider choice — 10 listed API providers against 0.

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Ornith 1.5 35B A3B and Qwen3.5 397B A17B
FieldOrnith 1.5 35B A3BOrnith AiQwen3.5 397B A17BQwen
ModelCap Index position#37#40
Index score65.965.1
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$0.55
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$3.50
Context window— tokens262K tokens
Max output tokens—236K
API providers listed010
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText, Image, Video
First listed18 August 202616 February 2026
PublisherOrnith AiQwen

Evidence: global-corpus-prior over 195 held-out anchors (22%); launch card against 2 resolved peers on 10 rows (78%); exceeds every named peer on 10 of 10 rows; optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 3.7 toward the measured corpus · 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Ornith 1.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Public benchmark boards where Ornith 1.5 35B A3B or Qwen3.5 397B A17B has a published result
BoardOrnith 1.5 35B A3BQwen3.5 397B A17BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)—14911486–1496Only one result
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis—18.4intelligence-index:v4.3:reasoning-unspecifiedOnly one result
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—95.6%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—29.0%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)":reasoning=trueOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Ornith 1.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B: common questions

Is Ornith 1.5 35B A3B better than Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 19 September 2026: #37 against #40. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Ornith 1.5 35B A3B cheaper than Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Ornith 1.5 35B A3B or Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Ornith 1.5 35B A3B or Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Ornith 1.5 35B A3B and Qwen3.5 397B A17B open-weight models?

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B: Open weights. Qwen3.5 397B A17B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Ornith 1.5 35B A3B and Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Ornith 1.5 35B A3B and 10 for Qwen3.5 397B A17B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Ornith 1.5 35B A3B vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 19 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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