Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.5 Max Preview vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index.

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Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

44.7

Rank #72 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 47.9 to 37.3.

Side by side

Qwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.742.3
Released—2026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked1715

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Coding1488—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —, Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1483—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LMCA—36.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.79

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.7%
LMArena Math1473—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—21%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond—84.8%
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
LMArena Expert1489—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1534—
LMArena French1483—
LMArena German1487—
LMArena Japanese1497—
LMArena Korean1438—
LMArena Russian1472—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1467—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1477—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.5 Max PreviewQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1464—
LMArena Multi-Turn1478—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.5 Max Preview better than Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 42.3 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.5 Max Preview and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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