Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs QwQ Plus

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #43 Confirmed

QwQ Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

38.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher in 1 category and QwQ Plus in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 36.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.4% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview and 65.4% for QwQ Plus.
  • QwQ Plus is cheaper at $0.80 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.30 / $7.80 for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.
  • Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index51.538.0
Released2026-04-202025-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window262K131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.30$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$7.80$2.40
Results tracked291

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1482—
LMArena Coding1471—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —, QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
Vending-Bench 24,254—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
SimpleBench63%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.1%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1457—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench87.2%—
LMCA42.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.24—

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.1%—
LMArena Math1465—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)23.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39), QwQ Plus: 36.4

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
GPQA Diamond87.4%65.4%
SimpleQA Verified52%—
LMArena Expert1478—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
LMArena Non-English1437—
LMArena Chinese1487—
LMArena French1449—
LMArena Russian1445—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1438—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
LMArena Longer Query1457—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewQwQ Plus
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
LMArena Multi-Turn1456—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than QwQ Plus?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 Max Preview or QwQ Plus?

QwQ Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Max Preview lists at $1.30 and $7.80.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Max Preview and QwQ Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29 scored results on Noometry and QwQ Plus has 1.

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