# Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3.7 Max > Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks. - Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mellum2-12b-a2-5b-instruct-vs-qwen3-7-max - Last updated: September 4, 2026 - Shared sourced benchmarks: 5 - HTML indexing: indexable - Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5 ## Quick Verdict Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score. ## Summary - Qwen3.7 Max leads overall 68.56 to 43. - The clearest category separation is in knowledge, where the averages are 48.1 for Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct and 62.4 for Qwen3.7 Max. - The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 40.9% and 92.4%. - Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M. ## Model Snapshot | Property | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | |----------|----------|----------| | Creator | JetBrains | Alibaba | | Type | Open Weight | Proprietary | | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning | | Context | 128K | 1M | | Overall Score | null | 68.56 | | Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 41 | | Pricing (input/output) | N/A | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | ## Category Breakdown ### Agentic - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #82/151) - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 42.8 (Supported · #110/151) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | BFCL v4 | 44.2% | 75.0% | Qwen3.7 Max | | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon | | QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 64.3% | Coming soon | | Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon | | MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 76.4% | Coming soon | | VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon | | HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon | | Gert Labs | Coming soon | 64.27% | Coming soon | | ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon | ### Coding - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 49.5 (Supported · #77/183) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | LiveCodeBench v6 | 37.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon | | SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon | | SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon | | NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon | | SciCode | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon | | LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon | | OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon | | LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon | | SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon | ### Reasoning - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 74.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon | | CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon | ### Knowledge - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: 48.1 (Estimated · #103/181) - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 62.4 (Supported · #28/181) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | MMLU-Redux | 78.1% | 95% | Qwen3.7 Max | | GPQA | 40.9% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max | | GPQA-D | 40.9% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max | | HLE | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon | | MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon | | SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon | | MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon | | GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon | | MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.3% | Coming soon | ### Instruction Following - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 91.1 (#16/120) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | IFEval | 75.8% | 94.3% | Qwen3.7 Max | | IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon | ### Multilingual - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/12) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 87% | Coming soon | | NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon | | INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon | | MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon | | PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon | ### Mathematics - Winner: Coming soon - Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct public-lane score: Coming soon - Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 82.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows) | Benchmark | Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon | | IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon | | Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon | ## FAQ ### Which is better overall, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct or Qwen3.7 Max? Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now. ### Where is the biggest gap between Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct and Qwen3.7 Max? The widest category gap is in knowledge, where the averages are 48.1 for Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct and 62.4 for Qwen3.7 Max. ### How many benchmarks does Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct cover on BenchLM? Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Instruct currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM? 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