> Qwen3-Max is a closed AI model from Alibaba, released 5 Sep 2025. Index score 137 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 97 of 229 ranked models. API price $0.78 in / $3.9 out per million tokens, 262K context.

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# Qwen3-Max

Alibaba

Released 5 Sep 2025

Closed

Flagship

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwen3-max-vs-deepseek-v3-2-exp/)

137125–148

Index score

#97 of 229 models

2/ 8

Core tests taken

2 of 6 areas · plus 9 anchor tests

−17

Versus the frontier at release

best then: GPT-5

Replaced by [Qwen3.6-Max-Preview](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-6-max-preview/)

$0.78/ $3.9

Price per million tokens

input / output, list price

262K

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_

Gemini 2.5 Pro reached this score 5 months earlier.

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

Show 7 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

73%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

19%

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

evidence

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

#97

of 219 · 137

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 Qwen3.6-Max-Preview; 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

↗

Alibaba Cloud Model Studio

API

↗

#### API providers · 1 · per million tokens, in / out

A

Alibaba

$0.78 / $3.9

cheapest

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

5 Sep 2025

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

Qwen3-Max (preview; official 09-24)

Scored as

Qwen3-Max

Artificial Analysis index

–

Output speed

–

Hugging Face

closed weights

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen3

Open

29 APR 2025

index 131

Qwen3-Coder

Open

22 JUL 2025

Qwen3-Max

Closed

5 SEP 2025

index 137

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B

Open

11 SEP 2025

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

Closed

26 JAN 2026

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen3-max/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01