Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs QwQ Plus

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.0

Rank #21 Confirmed

QwQ Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max 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 Qwen3.8 Max leads 61.7 to 36.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.7% for Qwen3.8 Max and 65.4% for QwQ Plus.
  • QwQ Plus is cheaper at $0.80 / $2.40 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Qwen3.8 Max accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index56.037.9
Released2026-08-022025-03-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M131K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$6$2.40
Results tracked381

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 52.3 (#30), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1671—
FrontierSWE15.8%—
SciCode52.9%—
LMArena Coding1499—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 42.6 (#17), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.4 (#26), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
CritPt20%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1493—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.69—

Math Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.1 (#15), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1498—

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#25), QwQ Plus: 36.5

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
GPQA Diamond92.7%65.4%
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—
LMArena Expert1504—

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 36.9 (#70), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.6 (#18), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
LMArena Non-English1468—
LMArena Chinese1537—
LMArena French1502—
LMArena German1489—
LMArena Japanese1466—
LMArena Korean1467—
LMArena Russian1478—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.7 (#19), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.5 (#30), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
LMArena Longer Query1486—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.0 (#31), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxQwQ Plus
LMArena Text1480—
LMArena Creative Writing1478—
LMArena Multi-Turn1487—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than QwQ Plus?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#21); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 Max or QwQ Plus?

QwQ Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.8 Max does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and QwQ Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 38 scored results on Noometry and QwQ Plus has 1.

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