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Qwen3 Max

Added Sep 5, 2025

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Qwen3 Max improves accuracy in coding and science, instruction following, and tool calling.

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

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ProviderQwenDeepSeek
Discovery tierBalancedOpen weights
AddedSep 5, 2025Dec 1, 2025
Limits
Context window256KBest163K
Max output32.77K65.54KBest
Average output—408 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$1.20$0.21Best
Output$6.00$0.31Best
Cache read—$0.0216
Performance
Throughput—50.4 tok/s
Time to first token—2.7 s
Request success (24h)—99.6%
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index15.616.0Best
Math Index80.7Best59.0
Capabilities
ToolsNoYes
Structured outputNoYes
PDF inputNoYes
Reasoning effort——

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • Qwen3 Max
  • DeepSeek V3.2

Intelligence Index

  • Qwen3 Max15.6
  • DeepSeek V3.216.0

Qwen3 Max: Better than 39% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • Qwen3 Max: 80.7Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 59.0

Document reasoning

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • Qwen3 Max: 50.0%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 45.7%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • Qwen3 Max: 11.9%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 11.2%

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • Qwen3 Max: 76.4%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 75.1%

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • Qwen3 Max: 84.1%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 83.7%

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • Qwen3 Max: 44.1%
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 49.0%Top

Coding

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • Qwen3 Max: 76.7%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 59.3%

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • Qwen3 Max: 80.7%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 59.0%

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • Qwen3 Max: 20.5%
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 32.6%Top

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • Qwen3 Max: 74.3%
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 78.9%Top

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • Qwen3 Max: 50.0%Top
    • DeepSeek V3.2: 45.7%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis

Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
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",
    "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",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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