> Qwen2.5-Max is a closed AI model from Alibaba, released 28 Jan 2025. Index score 116 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 146 of 229 ranked models.

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# Qwen2.5-Max

Alibaba

Released 28 Jan 2025

Closed

Flagship

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwen2-5-max-vs-deepseek-r1/) [Announcement](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/)

116105–128

Index score

#146 of 229 models

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 6 anchor tests

−20

Versus the frontier at release

best then: o1

Replaced by [Qwen3-Max](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-max/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

o1-mini reached this score 5 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 4 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

56%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

evidence

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#146

of 219 · 116

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Qwen3-Max; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Where to use it · prices checked 1 Oct 2026

#### From the lab

Qwen Chat

app · subscription

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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

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Provider prices come from OpenRouter's live listing; going direct to a provider can differ. Subscriptions are the lab's own apps.

## Facts and sources

Released

28 Jan 2025

Announcement

[qwenlm.github.io ↗](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/)

Release entry

Qwen2.5-Max

Scored as

Qwen2.5-Max

Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

closed weights

## Alibaba releases · around this one

QwQ-32B-Preview

Open

28 NOV 2024

Qwen2.5-VL

Open

26 JAN 2025

Qwen2.5-Max

Closed

28 JAN 2025

index 116

QwQ-32B

Open

6 MAR 2025

index 127

Qwen3

Open

29 APR 2025

index 131

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen2-5-max/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01