Model comparison
Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Yi 6B
Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Yi 6B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 51.5 | — |
| Released | 2026-04-20 | 2023-11-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 262K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.30 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.80 | — |
| Results tracked | 29 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1482 | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1471 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —, Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | 4,254 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.24 | 104.77 |
| SimpleBench | 63% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1457 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 87.2% | — |
| LMCA | 42.5% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 47.2% |
| HellaSwag | — | 74.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 71.3% |
Math Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.1% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1465 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 23.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 44.9% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 87.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1478 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 50.3% |
| MMLU | — | 64% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1437 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1487 | — |
| LMArena French | 1449 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1454 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1438 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1457 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60), Yi 6B: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Yi 6B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1447 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1435 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1456 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3.6 Max Preview better than Yi 6B?
Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Yi 6B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3.6 Max Preview and Yi 6B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29 scored results on Noometry and Yi 6B has 7.