Qwen3-Max: benchmark scores, price and ranking

Qwen3-Max from Alibaba is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: Alibaba
Type: Frontier model
Open weights: No
Released: 2025-09-24 (source: epoch)
Cheapest API price: $0.780 in / $3.90 out per million tokens (via openrouter, observed 2026-10-09T15:47Z)
Aggregate rank: Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Qwen3-Max is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.

Its cheapest listed input price, $0.780 per million tokens, is lower than that of 40% of the 427 models with a listed price.

Qwen3-Max benchmark results

Qwen3-Max benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Epoch ECI	142	#43 of 204	Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub	2026-10-13

About Qwen3-Max

Qwen3-Max is a frontier model from Alibaba. It was released on 2025-09-24, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.780 per million input tokens and $3.90 per million output tokens, through openrouter. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.

Where Qwen3-Max stands

Qwen3-Max has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.

Qwen3-Max, benchmark by benchmark

Epoch ECI puts Qwen3-Max at 142, #43 of 204. That beats 79% of the models tested, but 14 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are Gemini 2.5 Pro (May 2025) (142) and Gemma 4 26B A4B (142). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Qwen3-Max is 15 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.

Release history

The Alibaba model released before it was qwen3-coder-plus on 2025-09-23, which scores 48.0. The next one was Qwen3-Max-Instruct on 2025-09-24, at 48.2.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.