Qwen3.6-Max-Preview scores 38.1 on the Respan Index (#51), ahead of Claude Opus 4.5 at 37.5 (#52). Qwen3.6-Max-Preview leads on 5 of the 10 benchmarks both report. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is 3.4x cheaper per token at list price. Qwen3.6-Max-Preview has the larger context window (256K tokens).
* Estimated: no published scores in that category. How the Respan Index works
| SimpleQA Verified |
| 45.7% |
| 52% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI) | 76.7% | 76.7% |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 4967.06 | 4254.19 |
| LMArena Elo | 1474 | 1460 |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1493 | 1482 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 62% | 63% |
Higher is better. Each score links to where it was published.