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R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · R1 Distill Qwen 32B · Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#247 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
#202 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
79.3 pts/$
$0.29/M
Qwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)
no price
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Qwen 32B$0.29$0.2933K tokens (~16 books)$2.90
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen 3.5 Plus (hosted 397B-A17B)