Which is better, Qwen3.5 4B or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 4B vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview

19 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 19 shared benchmarks, Qwen3.5 4B scores higher on 0 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview on 19. The widest gap is TauBench V3 - Banking, where Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 51.3 against 6.8. Qwen3.5 4B is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.03 against $2.00 per million input tokens).

ALIBABAVSALIBABA19 SHARED0–19 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkQwen3.5 4BMARGINQwen3.8 Max Preview

AA Agentic Index36.349.6

AA Intelligence2040.3

AA-LCR6378.3

AA-Omniscience-58.43.4

Artificial Analysis Coding Index22.671.8

critpt020

ERQA46.377.8

gdpval8.356.5

GPQA Diamond77.192.7

HLE9.943.6

IFBench59.282.8

longbench_v25066.3

MMMU-Pro65.482.3

OmniScience Accuracy15.131.9

OmniScience Non-Hallucination13.458.3

RealWorldQA76.388

scicode18.353.2

TauBench V3 - Banking6.851.3

Terminal-Bench 2.125.886.6

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (direct, alibaba-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.

Compare Qwen3.5 4B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldQwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B GPT-5.5 Claude Opus 4.8 GPT-4o GPT-5.6 Sol

Compare Qwen3.8 Max Preview withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldGemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B GPT-5.5 Claude Opus 4.8 GPT-4o GPT-5.6 Sol Gemini 3.1 Pro GPT-5.4