Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
79
Qwen3.7 Max
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) unranked · Qwen3.7 Max #2
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Agentic
+4.3 difference
Coding
+19.5 difference
Knowledge
+2.7 difference
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)
Qwen3.7 Max
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Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Qwen3.7 Max is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 79. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.7 Max's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 73.6 against 54.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SciCode, 47% to 53.5%. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.7 Max gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
Qwen3.7 Max is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 79. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SciCode, where the scores are 47% and 53.5%.
Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.9 versus 71.2. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 54.1. Inside this category, SciCode is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 65.4. Inside this category, QwenWebBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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