Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3 Max vs QwQ-32B

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen3 Max scores higher in 6 categories and QwQ-32B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3 Max leads 62.4 to 50.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 66.7% for Qwen3 Max and 83.3% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.739.8
Released2025-09-232024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window262K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.20—
Output $ / M tokens$6—
Results tracked3336

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14561333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%
ALE-Bench370.45—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3 Max: —, QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
Vending-Bench 271.56—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles4%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14481325
Epoch Capabilities Index142.38137.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)30.1%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles5%—
DTBench82.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA28.3%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Too close to call

Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%59.2%
LMArena Math14461359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)18.9%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%
MATH Level 597.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond72.6%65.3%
LMArena Expert14551324
SimpleQA Verified48.7%—
Confabulations—15.6%

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14291305
LMArena Chinese14781378
LMArena French14491336
LMArena German14631313
LMArena Japanese13971262
LMArena Korean13991279
LMArena Russian14281297
LMArena Spanish14621354

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14191297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%83.3%
LMArena Longer Query14381308
CL-bench14.5%—

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkQwen3 MaxQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14391329
LMArena Creative Writing14021288
LMArena Multi-Turn14461314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3 Max better than QwQ-32B?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Qwen3 Max or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3 Max and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3 Max has 33 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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