Noometry

Model comparison

Llama 3-8B vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Llama 3-8B Meta

25.5

Rank #344 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3-8B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 7.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.9% for Llama 3-8B and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
  • Llama 3-8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.551.5
Released2024-04-182026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked3429

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding11521471
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
BigCodeBench Instruct31.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete36.9%—
HumanEval+56.7%—
MBPP+54.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 3-8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Chess Puzzles0%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts11331457
DTBench43.9%87.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index116.45149.24
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LMCA—42.5%
Adversarial NLI57.3%—
ForecastBench58.6—
WinoGrande75.7%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.9%91.1%
LMArena Math11511465
MATH Level 56.1%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond26.1%87.4%
LMArena Expert11131478
SimpleQA Verified—52%
ARC (AI2) Challenge82.8%—
MMLU68.8%—
OpenBookQA82.6%—
TriviaQA67.7%—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English10981437
LMArena Chinese10761487
LMArena French11591449
LMArena Russian11091445
LMArena Spanish11731454
LMArena German1104—
LMArena Japanese967—
LMArena Korean1004—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following11271438

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query11281457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

BenchmarkLlama 3-8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text11661447
LMArena Creative Writing11501435
LMArena Multi-Turn11521456

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3-8B better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 3-8B or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 3-8B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3-8B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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