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Qwen3 Max

Qwen · released Sep 23, 2025

ProprietaryTool useStructured output

Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It...

Specification

Context window
262K
Max output
66K
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 30, 2025
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

24.5

67th percentile

Coding

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

29 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

1.04s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.14

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • MMLU-Pro
    84.1%
  • AIME 2025
    80.7%
  • LiveCodeBench
    76.7%
  • GPQA Diamond
    76.4%
  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    74.3%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    48.3%
  • IFBench
    44.1%
  • SciCode
    38.3%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    20.5%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    11.9%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
MMLU-Pro84.1%
AIME 202580.7%
LiveCodeBench76.7%
GPQA Diamond76.4%
τ²-bench (Telecom)74.3%
AA-LCR (long context)48.3%
IFBench44.1%
SciCode38.3%
Terminal-Bench Hard20.5%
Humanity's Last Exam11.9%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite25.6
V3.225.1
Qwen3 Max24.5
Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)24.3
Claude Haiku 4.524.1
gpt-oss-120b24.1
Kimi K2 090524.0
o123.9

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence67th
Mathematics77th
Terminal work60th
Arena Elo36th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.78
Output / 1M tokens
$3.9
Cached input / 1M
$0.156
Blended 3:1
$1.56

One task, estimated

$0.14

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
25,000
Profile
Standard

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,141
Win rate
44.5%
Strongest at
Websites
Tournaments
22,600

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,050–1,150 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
Websites114144.5%
Game development113643.9%
3D scenes112943.5%
Data visualisation112641.1%
UI components111340.2%
SVG105837.3%