Benchmark Almanac

Qwen

Best on the Capabilities Index Qwen 3.8 Max 157.6
121 models 45 model cards read qwen.ai

How does Qwen stack up?

Every model on Epoch AI's Capabilities Index by release date, with Qwen's in color.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen3.7-Plus 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Qwen's best models

Qwen Aug 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max

Closed weights Flagship

157.6 #29 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 160.4 #28 of 404
  • MMMU-Pro 82.3% #7 /90
  • IFBench 82.8% #2 /80
  • DeepSWE 57.5% #16 /28
Qwen Sep 2026

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Closed weights

156.0 #40 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 166.2 #12 of 404
  • MMMU-Pro 82.7% #6 /90
  • NL2Repo-Bench 64.9% #3 /30
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 27% #20 /40
Qwen May 2026

Qwen3.7-Max

Closed weights Flagship

154.5 #49 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 155.8 #55 of 404
  • SWE-bench Verified 77.3% #7 /32
  • IFBench 79.1% #12 /80
  • SciCode 53.5% #6 /49
Qwen Aug 2026

Qwen 3.8 27B

Open weights

152.6 #58 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 153.3 #73 of 404
  • IFBench 79.5% #11 /80
  • NL2Repo-Bench 42.3% #21 /30
  • Agents' Last Exam 20.4% #21 /31
Qwen Apr 2026

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)

149.8 #72 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 152.3 #80 of 404
  • SWE-bench Verified 76.7% #11 /32
  • SciCode 47% #17 /49
  • NL2Repo-Bench 42.9% #19 /30
Qwen Mar 2026

Qwen 3.6 Plus

Closed weights Flagship

148.9 #74 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 151.1 #87 of 404
  • SWE-bench Verified 57.9% #29 /32
  • MMMU-Pro 78.8% #22 /90
  • IFBench 74.2% #26 /80

What benchmarks does Qwen mention most?

Here are the 28 benchmarks Qwen mentions most in its launch posts.

Source: Labs’ launch posts, read by Benchmark Almanac

Model cards

DateModelDocumentBenchmarks
Sep 18, 2026 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash: Omni Senses. Agentic Delivery. (blog) 45
Sep 2, 2026 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen3.8-Max-0902 announcement (score table image in Qwen's post on X) 14
Aug 26, 2026 Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (blog) 22
Aug 14, 2026 Qwen 3.8 27B Qwen3.8-27B model card (Hugging Face) 25
Aug 3, 2026 Qwen 3.8 Max Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (blog) 84
Jun 22, 2026 Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B model card (Hugging Face) 1
Jun 1, 2026 Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.7-Plus: Multimodal Agent Intelligence (blog) 73
May 20, 2026 Qwen3.7-Max Qwen3.7: The Agent Frontier (blog) 40
Apr 22, 2026 Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model (blog) 45
Apr 20, 2026 Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving (blog) 12
Apr 15, 2026 Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All (blog) 50
Apr 2, 2026 Qwen 3.6 Plus Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents (blog) 64
Mar 30, 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Flash Qwen3.5-Omni: Scaling Up, Toward Native Omni-Modal AGI (blog) 16
Mar 30, 2026 Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus Qwen3.5-Omni: Scaling Up, Toward Native Omni-Modal AGI (blog) 63
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-0.8B Qwen3.5-0.8B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 small series 56
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-2B Qwen3.5-2B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 small series 58
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-4B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 small series 68
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-9B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 small series 68
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 medium series 78
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-27B Qwen3.5-27B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 medium series 78
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model card (Hugging Face), Qwen3.5 medium series 78
Feb 16, 2026 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model card 80
Feb 2, 2026 Qwen3-Coder-Next Qwen3-Coder-Next: Pushing Small Hybrid Models on Agentic Coding (blog) 6
Jan 29, 2026 Qwen3-ASR-1.7B Qwen3-ASR (Qwen blog and Hugging Face model card) 3
Jan 23, 2026 Qwen3-Max Pushing Qwen3-Max-Thinking Beyond its Limits (blog) 18
Jan 22, 2026 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-CustomVoice Qwen3-TTS (Qwen blog and Hugging Face model card) 1
Jan 22, 2026 Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-Base Qwen3-TTS (Qwen blog and Hugging Face model card) 1
Jan 8, 2026 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B model card 2
Jan 8, 2026 Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B model card 2
Sep 24, 2025 Qwen3-Max Qwen3-Max: Just Scale it (blog) 8
Sep 23, 2025 Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B Qwen3-VL launch post (qwen.ai blog) 64
Sep 22, 2025 Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct model card (Hugging Face) 37
Sep 11, 2025 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking model card (Hugging Face) 20
Jul 25, 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking Jul 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 model card 22
Jul 22, 2025 Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World (blog) 12
Apr 29, 2025 Qwen3-235B-A22B Qwen3 blog (image) and Qwen3 Technical Report, Table 11 24
Mar 27, 2025 Qwen2.5-Omni-7B Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model card (Hugging Face) 42
Mar 6, 2025 QwQ-32B QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning (blog) and HF model card 5
Jan 28, 2025 Qwen2.5-VL-72B Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct model card (Hugging Face) 29
Jan 28, 2025 Qwen2.5-Max Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model (blog) 14
Jan 27, 2025 Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy Your Own Qwen with Context Length up to 1M Tokens (blog) 4
Sep 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-72B Qwen2.5-LLM: Extending the boundary of LLMs (blog) 34
Jun 7, 2024 Qwen2-72B Hello Qwen2 (blog) 28
Feb 5, 2024 Qwen1.5-72B Introducing Qwen1.5 (blog) 19
Sep 25, 2023 Qwen-14B Qwen-14B and Qwen-14B-Chat model cards 12

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