# Qwen3.6 Plus vs Qwen3.8 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3.8 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-6-plus-vs-qwen3-8-max
- Last updated: September 17, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 16
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6 Plus only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.8 Max leads overall 71.76 to 60.48.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 35.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is ScreenSpot Pro in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 68.2% and 84.5%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 60.48 | 71.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 48 | 60 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 35.9 (Supported · #133/153)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.3 (Supported · #9/153)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 58.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 57.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 41.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 39.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 48.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 74.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 74.3% | 81.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Gert Labs | 50.60% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 18.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 53.2% | 67.4% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 70.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 27.3% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 56.2% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 46.9 (Supported · #77/152)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #20/152)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | 67.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 25.56% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 86.0% | 87.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 73.4% | 85.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 56.6% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 41.0% | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 60.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 15.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 66.3 (#22/48)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 87.4 (#5/48)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 78.8% | 82.3% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MathVision | 88.0% | 95.2% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| VideoMMMU | 84.0% | 88.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 68.2% | 84.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CharXiv | 81.5% | 93.5% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| V* | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 49.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 69.0% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 77.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 63.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 82.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 81.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 60.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 86.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AI-Needle | 68.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 62% | 66.3% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 54 (Supported · #60/183)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.8 (Supported · #17/183)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 90.4% | 92.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SuperGPQA | 71.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 88.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 94.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 28.8% | 43.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.4% | 93.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.7% | 88.6% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 85.5 (#43/123)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 90.7 (#18/123)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 94.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 75.8% | 82.8% | Qwen3.8 Max |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 69.7 (#4/12)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 57.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6 Plus public-lane score: 62.4 (#4/7)
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.6 Plus | Qwen3.8 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 96.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 83.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 26.207% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 8.333% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.6 Plus or Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3.8 Max?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 35.9 for Qwen3.6 Plus and 67.3 for Qwen3.8 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6 Plus cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6 Plus currently has 48 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 60 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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