Benchmark Almanac

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)

Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) ranks first on 2 of the 36 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Qwen Released April 20th, 2026 Compare with others
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
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

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SuperGPQA 73.9% #1 of 35 Lab model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,460 #50 of 335 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 52% #28 of 94 Epoch AI run
AA-Omniscience 10.0 #4 of 10 Lab model card
Extended NYT Connections 74.1% #56 of 103 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing -0.98 #34 of 50 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 45.1 #29 of 40 Official leaderboard
QwenChineseBench 84% #1 of 1 Lab model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SimpleBench 63% #32 of 106 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 91.1% #65 of 212 Epoch AI run
GPQA Diamond 87.4% #71 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 87.2% #66 of 180 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath 23.1% #22 of 55 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 4.17% #35 of 55 Epoch AI run

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
QwenWebBench 1,532 #1 of 4 Lab model card
SWE-bench Verified 76.7% #11 of 32 Epoch AI run
SciCode 47% #17 of 49 Lab model card
LiveSQLBench 26.5% #15 of 36 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,479 #48 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
SWE-Bench Pro 57.3% #39 of 81 Lab model card
Code Arena 1,482 #64 of 128 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 42.9% #19 of 30 Lab model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 31 #32 of 188 Official leaderboard
ToolcallFormatIFBench 86.1% #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.0 65.4% #15 of 63 Lab model card
SkillsBench 55.6% #7 of 14 Lab model card
QwenClawBench 59% #3 of 6 Lab model card
Mystery Game Puzzles 19% #52 of 84 Epoch AI run
ClawProBench 57.4% #31 of 49 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CorpFin v2 66.5% #19 of 119 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent 52.8% #22 of 49 Official leaderboard
CHI-Bench 16.4% #13 of 23 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $4,254 #40 of 67 Official leaderboard
CaseLaw v2 47.9% #51 of 53 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
nocot-bench (NCRI) 87.0 #39 of 185 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ACCoRD 70.8 #50 of 152 Official leaderboard
LMCA 42.5% #50 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 55.4 #54 of 151 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 152.3, 2.5 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 6 capability results Qwen reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 149.1 to 155.5. How we compute it.

Its lab's number next to a leaderboard

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
ToolcallFormatIFBench 86.1% ToolcallFormatIFBench Real-World Toolcall Following 86.1% Leaderboard Same

Qwen's models over time

Qwen's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3-14B Qwen2.5-72B Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) Qwen2.5-Coder-32B 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen 3.6 Flash

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

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.