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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview

AlibabaReleased 20 Apr 2026ClosedFlagship
153141–164Index score#54 of 229 models
2/ 8Core tests taken2 of 6 areas · plus 9 anchor tests
−18Versus the frontier at releasebest then: GPT-5.4Replaced by Qwen3.7-Max
$1.03/ $6.16Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
262KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

GPT-5 reached this score 8 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
87%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingevidence
SWE-bench Verified
77%
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno 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 sayrank on each leaderboard

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 attop three 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 itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released20 Apr 2026
Announcementnot linked yet
Release entryQwen3.6-Max-Preview
Scored asQwen 3.6 Max (Preview)
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–
Hugging Faceclosed weights

Alibaba releasesaround this one