Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
72
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
70
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) unranked · Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #14
Pick Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Agentic
+13.9 difference
Coding
+12.8 difference
Knowledge
+13.4 difference
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
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256K
262K
Pick Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 72 versus 70. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)'s sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 65.4 against 51.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 65.4% to 51.5%. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 256K for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 72 to 70. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 65.4% and 51.5%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.9 versus 60.5. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.9 versus 54.1. Inside this category, terminalBench2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.4 versus 51.5. Inside this category, QwenWebBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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