Qwen · Balanced
Qwen 2.5 Max
Qwen 2.5 Max is the upgraded version of Qwen Max, beating GPT-4o, Deepseek V3 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in benchmarks.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.60
- Output
- $6.39
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 32K
- Max output
- 8.2K
Side by side
Qwen 2.5 Max compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen 2.5 MaxQwenThis model | OpenAI o3OpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Added | Oct 1, 2024 | Apr 16, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 32K | 200KBest |
| Max output | 8.19K | 100KBest |
| Average output | — | 205 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.60Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $6.39Best | $8.00 |
| Cache read | — | $1.00 |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 20.2 |
| Math Index | — | 88.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen 2.5 Max
- OpenAI o3
Intelligence Index
- Qwen 2.5 Max—
- OpenAI o320.2
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 88.3
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 74.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 20.1%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 82.7%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 85.3%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 71.4%
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 80.8%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 88.3%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 90.3%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 99.2%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 37.1%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 80.7%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen 2.5 Max: —
- OpenAI o3: 74.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Qwen 2.5 Max
- OpenAI o3
| Leaderboard | Qwen 2.5 Max | OpenAI o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1191.8 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1182.6 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1231.4 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen-max",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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