Model comparison

NVILA 8B vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

36.7

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • NVILA 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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NVILA 8B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview specifications
NVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.751.1
Released2024-12-102026-04-20
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked129

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
LMArena Coding—1472

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1457
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—87.2%
LMCA—42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—149.27

Math Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—91.1%
LMArena Math—1465
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond—87.4%
SimpleQA Verified—52%
LMArena Expert—1476

Multimodal Not comparable

NVILA 8B: 34.3, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
Video-MME64.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English—1436
LMArena Chinese—1487
LMArena French—1449
LMArena Russian—1444
LMArena Spanish—1452

Instruction Following Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following—1437

Long Context Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query—1457

Writing & Preference Not comparable

NVILA 8B: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNVILA 8BQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text—1447
LMArena Creative Writing—1435
LMArena Multi-Turn—1456

Frequently asked questions

Is NVILA 8B better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do NVILA 8B and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. NVILA 8B has 1 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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