Model comparison

Qwen Max vs Qwen1.5-110B

Qwen Max and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.7 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Max scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.7 to 22.3.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen Max and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Qwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.734.2
Released2024-04-032024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window33K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.60—
Output $ / M tokens$6.40—
Results tracked2320

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-110B leads

Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding12881184
Aider Polyglot21.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts12691168
ForecastBench—57.7

Math Qwen1.5-110B leads

Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math12751185
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.1%—
MATH Level 567.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert12481144
GPQA Diamond56.1%—

Multilingual Qwen Max leads

Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English12631142
LMArena Chinese12541206
LMArena French13301151
LMArena German12541123
LMArena Japanese12051074
LMArena Korean11421044
LMArena Russian12741118
LMArena Spanish12901142

Instruction Following Qwen Max leads

Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following12621158

Long Context Qwen Max leads

Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query12881157
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Qwen Max leads

Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen MaxQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text12821175
LMArena Creative Writing12481148
LMArena Multi-Turn12771160

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen Max better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Qwen Max and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.7 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Qwen Max or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-110B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.0 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Qwen Max and Qwen1.5-110B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Max has 23 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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