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Alibaba (Qwen)

Qwen3-Max

Released Sep 24, 2025 · knowledge cutoff 2025-06

Status
Superseded
Location
China
Modality
Multimodal
Context window
262K
Max output
66K
Speed
Price ($/MTok in / out)
$1.20 / $6
Cost per task
Open weights
No
Benchmarks5 of 8 reported

MMLU-Pro

85.4%

GPQA Diamond

85.4%

SWE-bench Verified

69.6%

AIME (latest)

92.3%

LMArena Elo

1428

Terminal-Bench 2.1

Humanity's Last Exam

ARC-AGI-2

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

  • Reliable multi-step tool calling — well-formed calls with correct arguments
  • Fast for its size thanks to sparse activation
  • Chinese and English both first-class rather than one as an afterthought

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights, unlike the rest of the Qwen line
  • Long agentic sessions get verbose, and the verbosity is where the cost goes
For developers

API model strings

Not researched

Licence

Proprietary — weights not released

Retirement

No retirement announced

Lineage

No recorded predecessor

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