# Qwen3.6-27B vs Qwen3 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-27b-vs-qwen3-max
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3 Max share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3 Max has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.72 | 43.82 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 38 | 2 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #133/151)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 72.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | 1487 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 70.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 54.84% | 43.74% | Qwen3.6-27B |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 42.6 (Supported · #128/183)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Estimated · #107/183)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 53.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | 83.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 36.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 3.51% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.9 (#35/48)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 82.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 84.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MStar | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 56.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CountBench | 97.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 62.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: 55.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 49 (Estimated · #95/181)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: 43.8 (Estimated · #123/181)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 66% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 91.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 24% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#50/120)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: 51.7 (#78/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)
- Qwen3 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen3 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 93.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 90.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 80.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3 Max?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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