Model comparison

Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Ring-2.6-1T

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 41.7 to 26.1.
  • Ring-2.6-1T has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.6 Max Preview and Ring-2.6-1T specifications
Qwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Ant Group (inclusionAI)
Noometry Index51.536.9
Released2026-04-202026-05-14
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window262K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.30—
Output $ / M tokens$7.80—
Results tracked293

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54), Ring-2.6-1T: 40.7

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1482—
SciCode—42.4%
LMArena Coding1471—
ALE-Bench—432.57

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —, Ring-2.6-1T: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
Vending-Bench 24,254—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53), Ring-2.6-1T: 26.1

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
SimpleBench63%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.1%—
CritPt—3.7%
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), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.1%—
LMArena Math1465—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)23.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified52%—
LMArena Expert1478—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Non-English1437—
LMArena Chinese1487—
LMArena French1449—
LMArena Russian1445—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Instruction Following1438—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Longer Query1457—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60), Ring-2.6-1T: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewRing-2.6-1T
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
LMArena Multi-Turn1456—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than Ring-2.6-1T?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Ring-2.6-1T does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview or Ring-2.6-1T better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.7 versus 40.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Max Preview and Ring-2.6-1T share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29 scored results on Noometry and Ring-2.6-1T has 3.

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