Qwen 3 Max
Strong value for high-volume usage.
Overview
Qwen 3 Max is Alibaba's open-source generalist model. Its Apache 2 license makes it fully commercially usable and self-hostable. Very strong on Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese). Good on coding, decent reasoning. Preferred for multilingual apps or sovereign deployments outside the US.
Skill profile
What do these scores mean?
PhD-level science questions (physics, chemistry, biology), with no tool access.
Resolving real GitHub issues under real conditions (SWE-bench Verified).
Competition-level math problems.
General knowledge across dozens of academic subjects.
Python code generation from specifications.
Strengths
- Has a free tier
- Competitive input pricing
Limitations
- No native GDPR guarantee
Who is it for
- you want to control cost or self-host
- you handle sensitive EU data
Ideal use cases
- Multilingual (Asian)
- Commercial self-host
- Asia apps
- Coding
Access & availability
Key specifications
Estimate your monthly cost
Per-token API pricingFor the same usage
- GPT-5$108+112%
- Claude Sonnet 4.6$196+285%
- Grok 4$256+402%
Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.
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Advanced data · for expertsArchitecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks▾
| Arena Elo | 1325 |
| MMLU | 86.0% |
| GPQA | 64.0% |
| HumanEval | 87.5% |
| SWE-Bench | 38.0% |
| MATH | 88.0% |