Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs WizardLM-2 8x22B

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft

30.7

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher in 2 categories and WizardLM-2 8x22B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 57.6 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.4% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview and 43.4% for WizardLM-2 8x22B.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper at $0.62 / $0.62 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 66K.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Microsoft
Noometry Index51.130.7
Released2026-04-202024-04-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window262K66K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$1.30$0.62
Output $ / M tokens$7.80$0.62
Results tracked292

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
LMArena WebDev1482—
LMArena Coding1472—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —, WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
Vending-Bench 24,254—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
SimpleBench63%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.1%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1457—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench87.2%—
LMCA42.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index149.27—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 26.8

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.1%—
LMArena Math1465—
MATH Level 5—25.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)23.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 23.3

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
GPQA Diamond87.4%43.4%
SimpleQA Verified52%—
LMArena Expert1476—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Non-English1436—
LMArena Chinese1487—
LMArena French1449—
LMArena Russian1444—
LMArena Spanish1452—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query1457—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.6 Max PreviewWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Text1447—
LMArena Creative Writing1435—
LMArena Multi-Turn1456—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than WizardLM-2 8x22B?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#36); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.6 Max Preview or WizardLM-2 8x22B?

WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.62 per million input tokens and $0.62 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 66K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Max Preview and WizardLM-2 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29 scored results on Noometry and WizardLM-2 8x22B has 2.

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