Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is a 397B-parameter (17B active) open-weight multimodal model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, released on 2026-02-16 under Apache-2.0. It supports text and image inputs with text outputs, combining a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with Gated Delta Networks for efficient scaling. The model provides native vision-language reasoning and a large ~262K token context window, extendable to ~1M tokens.
As the first open-weight release in the Qwen3.5 family, it positions itself as a high-capacity, long-context alternative in the large vision-language space, balancing scale and efficiency via sparse activation. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding, agent workflows, and multimodal understanding tasks.
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Past 30 DaysQwen3.5 397B A17B has not yet been evaluated on the current benchmark. The results below are from the legacy version of Vision Evals, our previous benchmark. See the current Vision Evals
| Category | Passed | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Document Understanding | 7 / 9 | 77.8% |
| Defect Detection | 10 / 15 | 66.7% |
| Object Understanding | 9 / 14 | 64.3% |
| Spatial Understanding | 11 / 19 | 57.9% |
| Object Counting | 2 / 10 | 20% |
| Category | Passed | Score |
|---|---|---|
| License Plate Recognition | 30 / 30 | 100% |
| Handwritten Math | 8 / 10 | 80% |
| Text Recognition | 21 / 30 | 70% |
| VQA & Extraction | 41 / 60 | 68.3% |
| Focused Scene OCR | 57 / 99 | 57.6% |
Scores based on a single evaluation run · Methodology
View all legacy Vision Evals results →Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs $0.390 per 1M input tokens and $2.34 per 1M output tokens.
Pricing updated Jul 21, 2026
Estimated cost per task vs. Visual Understanding score, for this model and others ranked near it. Upper-left is the sweet spot (high quality, low cost). Based on Vision Evals (legacy) results.
9 of 9 models plotted
| Model | Score | Median tokens | Est. cost / task | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 4 Maverick | 59.7% | 2.4K | $0.0005 | Compare |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 59.7% | 2.3K | $0.0092 | Compare |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | 59.7% | 2.1K | $0.040 | Compare |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 58.2% | 2.3K | $0.0030 | Compare |
| GPT-5 Nano | 58.2% | 2.7K | $0.0003 | Compare |
| Qwen3.5 397B A17B(this model) | 58.2% | 1.5K | $0.0006 | — |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 55.2% | 476 | $0.0005 | Compare |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 53.7% | 301 | <$0.0001 | Compare |
| Kimi K2.5 | 35.8% | 2.7K | $0.0031 | Compare |
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License terms and commercial-use guidance for Qwen3.5 397B A17B.
This model is released under the Apache License 2.0, a permissive open-source license that allows commercial use, modification, distribution, and patent use.
Yes. Under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license, you can freely use this model for commercial purposes, including in proprietary products. You must retain the copyright notice and disclaimers when redistributing.
License information is provided as a guide and is not legal advice.
Yes. Qwen3.5 397B A17B accepts image input, and on Roboflow's previous vision benchmark it passed 58.2% of visual understanding tasks (#51 of 77) and scored 68.6% on OCR. You can test it on your own image in the demo above.
Qwen3.5 397B A17B has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals. The results on this page are from the previous benchmark.
Yes. The demo on this page runs Qwen3.5 397B A17B in the free Roboflow Playground: upload an image and see results in seconds. A free account unlocks unlimited runs.