# Phi-3.5-MoE vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/phi-3-5-moe-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Phi-3.5-MoE has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Microsoft | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 51.5 |
| Rank | — | 43 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.80 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1471 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |

## Reasoning

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1457 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 149.24 |
| PIQA | 88.6% | — |

## Math

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 91.1% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1465 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
| GSM8K | 88.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1478 |
| BoolQ | 84.6% | — |

## Multilingual

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1454 |

## Instruction Following

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1438 |

## Long Context

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1457 |

## Writing & Preference

- Phi-3.5-MoE: —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

| Benchmark | Phi-3.5-MoE | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1456 |

## FAQ

### Is Phi-3.5-MoE better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Phi-3.5-MoE does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-MoE and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-MoE has 3 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.