# Qwen3.5 397B vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.5 397B and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-5-397b-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 18
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5 397B 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 63.46 to 52.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 0 for Qwen3.5 397B and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 46.1% and 76.4%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 63.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.60 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #60/119)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 52.5% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| BrowseComp | 62% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 56.8% | 65.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| QwenClawBench | 51.8% | 64.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| τ³-bench results | 68.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 43.7% | 47.9% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| DeepPlanning | 37.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 36.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 46.1% | 76.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MCP-Tasks | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 74.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 46.76% | 64.27% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.2% | 18.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #54/144)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.2% | 80.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.9% | 60.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| 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: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 60.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 63.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 68.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 63.9 (#27/49)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 79% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #41/171)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 88.4% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SuperGPQA | 70.4% | 73.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.8% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.9% | 95% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| C-Eval | 93% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 28.7% | 41.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.4% | 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 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Max
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/16)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/16)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | 87% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| NOVA-63 | 59.1% | 59.0% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 0 (#125/125)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 89.2 (#17/125)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | 94.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.5 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 81.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.5 397B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 94.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 92.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.9% | 97.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMAnswerBench | 80.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.5 397B or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.5 397B and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 0 for Qwen3.5 397B and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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