Benchmark Almanac

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct Jul 2025

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct places in the top three on 3 benchmarks.

Qwen Released July 25th, 2025 Compare with others
46
Benchmarks with a score
0
Ranked first, out of five or more models
3
In the top three
Qwen Jul 2025

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct

Jul 2025 snapshot Open weights

138.1 #132 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • VITA-Bench 12.3% #16 /18
  • ProfBench 45% #45 /72
  • PRBench 38.3% #40 /48

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
Encyclo-K 50.4% #2 of 23 Official leaderboard
WritingBench 80.3 #6 of 45 Official leaderboard
LongBench v2 58.3% #5 of 33 Official leaderboard
HUMAINE 32 #8 of 50 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 83% #42 of 212 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,422 #103 of 335 Official leaderboard
HELM Arabic 79.5 #9 of 28 Official leaderboard
HELM Arabic Enterprise 69.6 #8 of 23 Official leaderboard
IFEval 83.5% #29 of 60 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 57.4 #72 of 119 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 52.9% #38 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
Judgemark v2.1 59.7 #31 of 42 Official leaderboard
RULERv2 83.7% #3 of 3 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Main 72.7% #8 of 60 Official leaderboard
SciArena 1,021 #14 of 34 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 1.25% #82 of 98 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 11% #85 of 95 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ArtifactsBench 50.6% #10 of 20 Official leaderboard
AutoCodeBench 43.1% #19 of 34 Official leaderboard
BigCodeArena 1,004 #8 of 13 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 38.7% #84 of 112 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SnakeBench 29 #44 of 188 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 53% #6 of 21 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 52.1% #19 of 65 Official leaderboard
OdysseyArena AI Trading 11.3% #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 4 #24 of 56 Official leaderboard
Step Race 2 #27 of 59 Official leaderboard
OdysseyArena Energy Dispatch 0% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
OdysseyArena Turn on Lights 15% #4 of 8 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -140 #87 of 123 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 133.3 #106 of 133 Official leaderboard
OdysseyArena Repo System 15.8% #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
VITA-Bench 12.3% #16 of 18 Official leaderboard
MCP-Universe 18.2% #28 of 30 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
StockBench 2.00 #2 of 13 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 45% #45 of 72 Official leaderboard
PRBench 38.3% #40 of 48 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Anthropic Red Team 99.9% #5 of 75 Official leaderboard
LiveSecBench 69.2 #7 of 34 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #17 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 79% #25 of 82 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 94.8 #23 of 75 Official leaderboard
SUPERChem 26.4% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard
Lakera B3 (Backbone Breaker Benchmark) 44.9% #30 of 35 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.2 20.4 #19 of 21 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HELM Capabilities 79.8 #6 of 60 Official leaderboard

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)