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Qwen Max

Alibaba

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#67 of 272), weakest in Human preference (#204 of 342). Above par in 5 of 10 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Sonnet 5 and ahead of DeepSeek V4 Pro and Mimo V2.6 Flash.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety53.3−8.2#91/3371/3

Toxicity avoidance56.3−2.7#67/2721/1

Jailbreak resistance57.7−7.2#73/2721/1

Secure code56.9−9.6#98/2741/1

Harm refusal52.8−8.8#113/3001/2

Fairness46.2−23.8#167/3001/2

Coding45.1−24#114/1651/5

Agentic coding44.1−24.6#112/1571/4

Human preference49.1−18.4#204/3421/1

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Qwen Max, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Aya 23 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 6 · lost 0

Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 6 · lost 0

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba Instructwon 6 · lost 0

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 6 · lost 0

Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 6 · lost 0

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Ling 3.0 Flashwon 8 · lost 0

Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Zephyr 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 8 · lost 0

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 8 · lost 0

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 8 · lost 0

DBRX Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 8 · lost 0

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 8 · lost 0

Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Command R Pluswon 8 · lost 0

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 8 · lost 0

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 8 · lost 0

Magistral Mediumwon 8 · lost 0

Grok Build 0.1won 7 · lost 1

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 7 · lost 1

Gemma 2B Itwon 7 · lost 1

Gemma 7B Itwon 7 · lost 1

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 7 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 7 · lost 1

Gemma 2 9B Itwon 7 · lost 1

Nova Prowon 7 · lost 1

Mistral Largewon 7 · lost 1

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 5 · lost 1

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 2won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 5 · lost 1

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Mini 1.7won 5 · lost 1

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Magistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 5 · lost 1

Command R7Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 700Mwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba Large 1.7won 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen3 8Bwon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Open Codestral Mambawon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 1.2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Aya 23 35Bwon 5 · lost 1

DeepSeek V3p1won 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 5 · lost 1

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 1won 5 · lost 1

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 5 · lost 1

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 5 · lost 1

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-5 Turbowon 5 · lost 1

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 30Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 5 · lost 1

QwQ 32Bwon 8 · lost 2

Command Awon 8 · lost 2

GLM-4.6won 8 · lost 2

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 8 · lost 2

Grok 4.3won 8 · lost 2

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 6 · lost 2

Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 6 · lost 2

Starling Lm 7B Betawon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 2 2B Itwon 6 · lost 2

Nova Microwon 6 · lost 2

Nova Litewon 6 · lost 2

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 2

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 3 12B Itwon 6 · lost 2

Mistral Smallwon 6 · lost 2

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 7 · lost 3

Komodo 7B Basewon 4 · lost 2

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 4 · lost 2

Fuguwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 4 · lost 2

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 4 · lost 2

Apertus 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 4 · lost 2

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 4 · lost 2

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 4 · lost 2

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 4 · lost 2

SeaLLM 7B V2won 4 · lost 2

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 4 · lost 2

Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 2

K2 Chatwon 4 · lost 2

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 4 · lost 2

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 4 · lost 2

Claude 3 Haikuwon 6 · lost 3

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 5 · lost 3

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 5 · lost 3

Gemma 4 12Bwon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 5 · lost 3

GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 3

Grok 3won 5 · lost 3

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 5 · lost 3

GPT-4o Miniwon 6 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 6 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 6 · lost 4

MiniMax M3won 6 · lost 4

Kimi K2.5won 6 · lost 4

Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 6 · lost 4

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 3 · lost 3

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Apertus 70B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 3 · lost 3

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 3 · lost 3

Titan Text Express V1won 3 · lost 3

Fugu Ultra V2won 3 · lost 3

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 3 · lost 3

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 4 · lost 4

GPT-4won 4 · lost 4

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 4 · lost 4

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 4 · lost 4

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 5 · lost 5

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 5

DeepSeek V3won 5 · lost 5

Grok 4won 5 · lost 5

DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 5

Gemma 4 31Bwon 5 · lost 5

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 5 · lost 5

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 5 · lost 5

GLM-5.2won 5 · lost 5

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 5 · lost 5

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 5

GPT OSS 120Bwon 4 · lost 6

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 6

DeepSeek V3.2won 4 · lost 6

GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 6

Kimi K2.6won 4 · lost 6

GLM-5.1won 4 · lost 6

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 6

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 4 · lost 6

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 4 · lost 6

C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen2 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5

C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 3 · lost 5

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5

GPT OSS 20Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 3 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 3 · lost 5

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 2 · lost 4

Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 2 · lost 4

Nova Premierwon 2 · lost 4

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 105Bwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 2 · lost 4

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 3 · lost 7

GPT-5 Miniwon 3 · lost 7

Claude Haiku 4.5won 3 · lost 7

Kimi K2won 3 · lost 7

GPT-6 Lunawon 3 · lost 7

Grok 4.5won 3 · lost 7

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 3 · lost 7

GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 7

Claude Opus 5won 3 · lost 7

Grok 3 Mini Betawon 2 · lost 5

Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 5

Phi 4won 2 · lost 6

Gemma 2 27B Itwon 2 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 6

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 7

GPT-4owon 2 · lost 8

GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 8

MiniMax M2.7won 2 · lost 8

Inklingwon 2 · lost 8

Grok 4.6won 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 8

GPT-5.5won 2 · lost 8

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 1 · lost 5

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 1 · lost 5

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 1 · lost 5

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Nanowon 1 · lost 7

Hy3won 1 · lost 7

GPT-4 Turbowon 1 · lost 8

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 1 · lost 9

O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 9

O3 Miniwon 1 · lost 9

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 9

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 9

O4 Miniwon 1 · lost 9

O1won 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 9

O3won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5won 1 · lost 9

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 9

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 4.8won 1 · lost 9

Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 9

Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 9

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-4.5won 0 · lost 7

Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 8

MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 8

Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 10

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 10

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 10

Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 10

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

3 publications, 8 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26

LMArena Text 1318

Aider polyglot ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26

Aider polyglot 21.8%

Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26

Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 6.3%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 32.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 7.7%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 1.9%Enkrypt · Bias risk 83.7%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 19.6%

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