Model comparison
Qwen3-4B vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 29.6 to 18.5.
- Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.5 | 44.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-29 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1488 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 35.7% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1483 |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 38.5% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 52.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1473 |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 52.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1489 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1534 |
| LMArena French | — | 1483 |
| LMArena German | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1472 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1470 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1467 |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1477 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3-4B: —, Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-4B | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1471 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1478 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3-4B better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 31.5 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3-4B and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-4B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.