Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Composer 2.5
82
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
79
Pick Composer 2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window.
Agentic
+3.9 difference
Composer 2.5
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
$0.5 / $2.5
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200K
256K
Pick Composer 2.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 256K context window.
Composer 2.5 has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 82 versus 79. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Composer 2.5's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 69.3 against 65.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 69.3% to 65.4%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Composer 2.5.
Composer 2.5 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 82 to 79. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 69.3% and 65.4%.
Composer 2.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.3 versus 65.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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