Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen3.8 Max vs WizardLM-2 8x22B

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft

31.4

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen3.8 Max scores higher in 2 categories and WizardLM-2 8x22B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 73.2 to 28.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 92.7% for Qwen3.8 Max and 43.4% for WizardLM-2 8x22B.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper at $0.62 / $0.62 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Qwen3.8 Max accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 66K.
  • WizardLM-2 8x22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Microsoft
Noometry Index56.831.4
Released2026-08-022024-04-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M66K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.62
Output $ / M tokens$6$0.62
Results tracked392

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
DeepSWE57.5%—
LMArena WebDev1674—
FrontierSWE17.8%—
SciCode53.2%—
LMArena Coding1502—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
APEX-Agents63.3%—
τ²-bench Banking55.1%—
GDP.pdf23.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
NYT Connections (extended)88.3%—
CritPt20%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1496—
Mystery Game Puzzles38%—
DTBench92%—
LMCA46.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.41—

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 28.9

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1499—
MATH Level 5—25.7%

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27), WizardLM-2 8x22B: 23.3

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
GPQA Diamond92.7%43.4%
SimpleQA Verified47.3%—
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Vision1314—
Furniture Assembly20%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Non-English1472—
LMArena Chinese1538—
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1483—
LMArena Japanese1467—
LMArena Korean1461—
LMArena Russian1481—
LMArena Spanish1492—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Longer Query1489—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30), WizardLM-2 8x22B: —

BenchmarkQwen3.8 MaxWizardLM-2 8x22B
LMArena Text1483—
LMArena Creative Writing1479—
LMArena Multi-Turn1489—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen3.8 Max better than WizardLM-2 8x22B?

Qwen3.8 Max has enough public results to be ranked (#22); WizardLM-2 8x22B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 Max or WizardLM-2 8x22B?

WizardLM-2 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.62 per million input tokens and $0.62 per million output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max lists at $2 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.8 Max does, with 1M tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen3.8 Max and WizardLM-2 8x22B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen3.8 Max has 39 scored results on Noometry and WizardLM-2 8x22B has 2.

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