Qwen · Balanced
Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
Qwen3 Max is Alibaba's flagship Qwen 3 reasoning model with native tool use (web search, web extractor, code interpreter) and a 256K context window.
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.20
- Output
- $6.00
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 256K
- Max output
- 32.8K
Side by side
Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23QwenThis model | Muse Spark 1.1MetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Added | Jan 26, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256K | 1MBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 65.54KBest |
| Average output | — | 460 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.20Best | $1.25 |
| Output | $6.00 | $4.25Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.15 |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 33.7 |
| Coding Index | — | 71.3 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
- Muse Spark 1.1
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23—
- Muse Spark 1.133.7
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 71.3
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 38.8%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 13.7%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 850 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 1,211 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 14.4%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 77.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 7.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 46.2%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 89.8%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 6.1%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 58.8%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23: —
- Muse Spark 1.1: 77.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
- Muse Spark 1.1
| Leaderboard | Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #15 · 23.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
- Muse Spark 1.1
| Leaderboard | Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1489.9 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1532.7 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1510.0 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1528.6 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1490.0 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1505.1 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1514.8 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1490.8 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1497.5 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1501.1 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #20 · 1498.3 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1500.5 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1524.6 |
| Korean | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1473.8 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1495.6 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1482.7 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1509.4 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1493.3 |
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1335.5 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1274.9 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1464.7 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1479.5 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23
- Muse Spark 1.1
| Leaderboard | Qwen3 Max 2026-01-23 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1252 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1928 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
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/qwen3-max-2026-01-23",
"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/qwen3-max-2026-01-23",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Qwen
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