> QwQ-32B-Preview is an open-weights AI model from Alibaba, released 28 Nov 2024.

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# QwQ-32B-Preview

Alibaba

Released 28 Nov 2024

Open

Reasoning

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwq-32b-preview-vs-o1/) [Announcement](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwq-32b-preview)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

Replaced by [QwQ-32B](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwq-32b/)

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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_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

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

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

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

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#176

of 373 · 1363

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#113

of 239 · 137.6

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#206

of 383 · 1383

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#213

of 388 · 1336

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#221

of 386 · 1293

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 QwQ-32B; 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

#### Run it yourself

🤗

Official weights

Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview

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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 Nov 2024

Announcement

[qwen.ai ↗](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwq-32b-preview)

Release entry

QwQ-32B-Preview

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

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Weights

[huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview ↗](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview)

Output speed

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Hugging Face

not linked

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Qwen2.5

Open

19 SEP 2024

index 110

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Open

12 NOV 2024

QwQ-32B-Preview

Open

28 NOV 2024

Qwen2.5-VL

Open

26 JAN 2025

Qwen2.5-Max

Closed

28 JAN 2025

index 116

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwq-32b-preview/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01