# Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

> Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen2-5-coder-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | — | 51.5 |
| Rank | — | 43 |
| Context | — | 262K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.30 |
| Output $/M | — | $7.80 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.7 (#54)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 76.7% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1471 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 4,254 |

## Reasoning

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 41.7 (#53)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 113.14 | 149.24 |
| SimpleBench | — | 63% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 74.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1457 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 19% |
| DTBench | — | 87.2% |
| LMCA | — | 42.5% |
| HellaSwag | 76.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 72.9% | — |

## Math

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.1 (#46)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | 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 | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#39)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 52% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1478 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 60.9% | — |
| MMLU | 68% | — |

## Multilingual

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1437 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1487 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1445 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1454 |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.7 (#55)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1438 |

## Long Context

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#61)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1457 |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
- Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 63.8 (#60)

| Benchmark | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1447 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1435 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1456 |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview has enough public results to be ranked (#43); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) and Qwen3.6 Max Preview share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.