Benchmark Almanac

Qwen3-235B-A22B

Qwen3-235B-A22B ranks first on 3 of the 99 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Qwen Released April 28th, 2025 Family Qwen3 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
8
In the top three
Qwen Apr 2025

Qwen3-235B-A22B

Open weights Flagship

138.4 #130 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 137.6 #199 of 404
  • SWE-Bench Pro 21.4% #18 /24
  • MultiChallenge 41.2% #35 /42
  • GPQA Diamond 70.7% #118 /229

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
Arena-Hard-Auto 95.6% #2 of 39 Lab model card
AlignBench 8.94 #1 of 15 Lab model card
MLogiQA 77.1% #1 of 8 Lab model card
MT-AIME2024 80.8% #1 of 7 Lab model card
RULER 95% #7 of 42 Lab model card
Encyclo-K 43.3% #5 of 23 Official leaderboard
Meeseeks Utility Rate 87.1% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
HABIT-Bench 33.1% #2 of 6 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 58.4% #8 of 23 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 67.7% #20 of 57 Fiction.live leaderboard, via Epoch AI
WritingBench 74.7 #17 of 45 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,402 #128 of 335 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 15822.0 #30 of 77 Official leaderboard
SuperGPQA 49.4% #23 of 59 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Redux 92.7% #18 of 45 Lab model card
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 15.6% #24 of 58 Official leaderboard
LongBench v2 50.1% #14 of 33 Official leaderboard
MMLU-Pro 68.2% #91 of 212 Official leaderboard
C-Eval 89.6% #21 of 46 Lab model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 9.30% #48 of 104 Official leaderboard
INCLUDE 78.7% #15 of 31 Lab model card
MMMLU 84.3% #36 of 71 Lab model card
EQ-Bench 3 1,267 #40 of 78 Official leaderboard
Multi-IF 71.9% #15 of 28 Lab model card
KINA 29.4% #22 of 37 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 63.8 #74 of 120 Official leaderboard
IFEval 83.4% #92 of 135 Lab model card
Judgemark v2.1 56.2 #34 of 42 Official leaderboard
MultiChallenge 41.2% #35 of 42 Official leaderboard
MultiNRC 17.6% #32 of 38 Official leaderboard
ConStory-Bench 1.45 #12 of 14 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 6.00% #122 of 129 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 7.27% #102 of 107 Official leaderboard
ComplexNLU (Tencent) 59.8% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MATH-500 98% #7 of 70 Lab model card
UGMathBench 81.8% #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
AIME 2024 85.7% #31 of 88 Lab model card
GPQA Main 62.3% #22 of 60 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 68.9% #35 of 94 Epoch AI run
HiPhO 57.9% #15 of 36 Official leaderboard
Misguided Attention 49% #19 of 45 Official leaderboard
PHYBench 28.7% #12 of 28 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 6.00% #15 of 34 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.13 #37 of 82 Official leaderboard
AutoLogi 89% #4 of 8 Lab model card
GPQA Diamond 70.7% #118 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 75.7% #104 of 180 Official leaderboard
PolyMath 54.7% #14 of 24 Lab model card
SciArena 1,003 #20 of 34 Official leaderboard
AIME 2025 81.5% #86 of 143 Lab model card
HMMT 2025 62.5% #36 of 53 Official leaderboard
BRUMO 2025 86.7% #29 of 42 Official leaderboard
ZebraLogic 80.3% #16 of 23 Lab model card
SimpleBench 31% #82 of 106 Official leaderboard
SMT 2025 76.9% #33 of 40 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveCodeBench v5 70.7% #10 of 47 Lab model card
LiveCodeBench 87.8% #5 of 21 Official leaderboard
AetherCode 17.6% #3 of 9 Official leaderboard
Multi-LCB 48.9% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
AutoCodeBench 45.9% #13 of 34 Official leaderboard
Codeforces rating 2,056 #23 of 47 Lab model card
LiveCodeBench v6 65.9% #11 of 21 Official leaderboard
LiveSQLBench 22.2% #23 of 36 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 21.4% #18 of 24 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 37.3% #88 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,023 #128 of 151 Official leaderboard
ArtifactsBench 41.1% #17 of 20 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 992 #130 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 950 #128 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 918 #137 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 841 #133 of 136 Official leaderboard
IOI (Vals) 0% #55 of 55 Official leaderboard
SWE-Perf 0.68% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 70.8% #14 of 41 Lab model card
Step Race 3 #22 of 59 Official leaderboard
lmgame-Bench 26.5 #12 of 23 Official leaderboard
ITBench 46% #7 of 13 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp-ZH 13.2% #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
Elimination Game 4 #38 of 56 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 20 #130 of 188 Official leaderboard
Meta Agents Research Environments (ARE) / Gaia2 11.6% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BRIDGE 48.7 #12 of 39 Official leaderboard
LEXam 47.3% #14 of 30 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 80.2% #86 of 138 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 70.7% #83 of 129 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseClawBench 27% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BaxBench 32.6% #15 of 34 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 99% #38 of 75 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 70.5 #96 of 185 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 98.5% #44 of 75 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 90.0 #48 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 56% #58 of 82 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 41.5% #67 of 86 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 41.4% #71 of 90 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 61.4% #70 of 73 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 1.86% #33 of 34 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LiveBench 77.1% #4 of 27 Lab model card
HELM Capabilities 72.6 #17 of 60 Official leaderboard
LMCA 25% #102 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 36.3 #107 of 151 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 46.8 #118 of 152 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 137.6, in line with its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 18 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 135.7 to 139.4. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 10 leaderboards

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 What differs
Creative Writing v3 84.6 Creative Writing v3 63.8 Leaderboard +20.8
WritingBench 80.3 WritingBench 74.7 Leaderboard, thinking +5.57 Qwen reports an earlier WritingBench evaluation, while the current board uses Claude Sonnet 4.5 to judge responses.
MATH-500 98% MATH-500 94.6% Leaderboard, Vals AI harness +3.4 pts
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 70.8% BFCL v3 67.9% Leaderboard, native function calling +2.9 pts
IFEval 83.4% IFEval strict prompt 81.6% Leaderboard, strict, share of instructions followed +1.8 pts
LiveCodeBench v5 70.7% LiveCodeBench v5 70% Leaderboard +0.7 pts
AIME 2025 81.5% AIME’25 80.8% Leaderboard +0.7 pts
GPQA Diamond 71.1% GPQA-Diamond 70.7% Epoch AI run +0.4 pts
PolyMath 54.7% PolyMath 54.6% Leaderboard, thinking Same
RULER 95% RULER Avg. (4K to 128K, YaRN x4), non-thinking mode, 128K 90.6. Thinking mode Avg. 92.2 with 8192-token thinking budget (Table 23) 95% 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.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 1 of them isn't in the launch post.