Qwen 3.5 397B Benchmarks as Best Available Local Coder, Outperforming GPT-OSS 120B and MiniMax

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

r/LocalLLaMA post (169 upvotes, 92 comments) documents hands-on comparison of Qwen 3.5 397B as superior to gpt-oss 120b, StepFun 3.5, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen Coder 80B, and Super Nemotron 120B on coding tasks. Relevant for heterogeneous model routing in agentic pipelines — 397B may justify the inference cost for complex coding subtasks where smaller models fail.