Qwen3.5-397B

AlibabaMULTIMODAL Open weight
Provider
Alibaba
Modality
MULTIMODAL
Parameters
397B
Context window
256,000 tokens
Weights
Open
Released
16 Feb 2026
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Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (Feb 2026) is Alibaba's current open flagship — a 397B/17B-active multimodal Apache-2.0 MoE that brings frontier reasoning and coding into self-hostable form.

Best for

  • The strongest fully-open Qwen — frontier reasoning + coding + multimodal
  • The open alternative to the closed Qwen Max line
  • Far higher throughput than Qwen3-Max at long context
  • 201-language coverage for broad multilingual work

How it compares — and the India angle

  • Apache 2.0 lets Indian firms self-host with full data residency (DPDP-Act friendly) and zero per-token cost.
  • 201 languages include usable Hindi/Indic support — though benchmark against Sarvam/IndicTrans for heavy Indic work.
  • Frontier capability without the closed Max line's API-only lock-in.

Benchmarks

Representative public scores (approximate, higher is better) for relative comparison. Check the provider for the latest official results.

GPQA Diamond88
SWE-bench Verified80
MMLU-Pro88

How to access

Free to self-host (Apache 2.0). Managed API as qwen3.5-plus via DashScope. Context extends to ~1M.

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