A multilingual instruction-following and understanding benchmark row published in Qwen's launch comparisons.
As of March 2026, Qwen3.6 Plus leads the MAXIFE leaderboard with 88.2% , followed by Qwen3.5 397B (88.2%) and GLM-5 (85.6%).
Qwen3.6 Plus
Alibaba
Qwen3.5 397B
Alibaba
GLM-5
Zhipu AI
According to BenchLM.ai, Qwen3.6 Plus leads the MAXIFE benchmark with a score of 88.2%, followed by Qwen3.5 397B (88.2%) and GLM-5 (85.6%). The top models are clustered within 2.6 points, suggesting this benchmark is nearing saturation for frontier models.
5 models have been evaluated on MAXIFE. The benchmark falls in the Multilingual category. This category carries a 7% weight in BenchLM.ai's overall scoring system. MAXIFE is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
Year
2026
Tasks
Multilingual instruction following
Format
Cross-lingual benchmark
Difficulty
Advanced multilingual instruction following
MAXIFE appears as a high-level multilingual benchmark intended to capture both instruction compliance and language transfer. BenchLM tracks it as a display-only multilingual signal pending a fuller public benchmark specification.
Qwen3.6 launch benchmarksVersion
MAXIFE 2026
Refresh cadence
Quarterly
Staleness state
Current
Question availability
Public benchmark set
BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.
A multilingual instruction-following and understanding benchmark row published in Qwen's launch comparisons.
Qwen3.6 Plus by Alibaba currently leads with a score of 88.2% on MAXIFE.
5 AI models have been evaluated on MAXIFE on BenchLM.
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