Qwen · Balanced
Qwen3 Max
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
Side by side
Qwen3 Max compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Qwen3 MaxQwenThis model | Qwen3.7 MaxQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Qwen | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Frontier |
| Added | Sep 5, 2025 | May 21, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 256K | 1MBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 65.54KBest |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.20Best | $1.47 |
| Output | $6.00 | $4.43Best |
| Cache read | — | $0.30 |
| Cache write | — | $1.84 |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 15.6 | — |
| Math Index | 80.7 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | none, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Qwen3 Max
- Qwen3.7 Max
Intelligence Index
- Qwen3 Max15.6
- Qwen3.7 Max—
Qwen3 Max: Better than 39% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Qwen3 Max: 80.7
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
Document reasoning
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Qwen3 Max: 50.0%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Qwen3 Max: 11.9%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Qwen3 Max: 76.4%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Qwen3 Max: 84.1%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Qwen3 Max: 44.1%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
Coding
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Qwen3 Max: 76.7%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Qwen3 Max: 80.7%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Qwen3 Max: 20.5%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Qwen3 Max: 74.3%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Qwen3 Max: 50.0%
- Qwen3.7 Max: —
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.
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)Qwen
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