Is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

13 undominated of 136 · Sep 23, 2026

As of Sep 23, 2026, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. GLM 5.3 Flash scores 54.0 higher and costs 67% less, with a covering envelope. 13 of 136 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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Current model

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

GLM 5.3 Flash is both better and cheaper than Qwen3.5-122B-A10B: 54.0 points higher on LMArena and 67% less per million tokens, $0.48 cheaper at this mix.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1417.9

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.715/M

GLM 5.3 Flash

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1471.9

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.237/M

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B takes text, image, video, returns up to 65,536 tokens from a 262,144-token context, and is listed by 5 sellers.

Compared against 136 rated, priced models on this lens: 4 models dominate it and give up nothing, 5 more dominate it but give something up. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B scores 1417.9 at $0.72 per million tokens for this mix.

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
GLM 5.3 Flash1471.9 +54.0$0.237/M67%
Gemma 4 26B A4B 1434.5 +16.6$0.143/M80%
MiniMax M31433.5 +15.6$0.525/M27%
MiMo-V2.51427.4 +9.5$0.175/M76%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou give up
MiMo-V2.5-Pro1464.8$0.544/Mimage, video
Qwen3.7 Plus1454.2$0.560/Mvideo
Gemma 4 31B1441.7$0.153/Mmax output
Hy31440.6$0.144/Mimage, video
DeepSeek V4 Flash 04231431.8$0.103/Mimage, video
GLM 5.3 Flash1471.9 · $0.237/MQwen3.5-122B-A10B1417.9 · $0.715/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
136 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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