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🇨🇳 China🧠 GeneralistReleased September 2025

Qwen 3 Max

Alibaba
Free
Verdict

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

FrenchReasoningSpeedCreativitySafety
Arena Elo1325
Verified benchmarks
GPQA64%
SWE-Bench38%
MATH88%
MMLU86%
HumanEval87.5%

What do these scores mean?

GPQA64%solid

PhD-level science questions (physics, chemistry, biology), with no tool access.

SWE-Bench38%fair

Resolving real GitHub issues under real conditions (SWE-bench Verified).

MATH88%excellent

Competition-level math problems.

MMLU86%excellent

General knowledge across dozens of academic subjects.

HumanEval87.5%excellent

Python code generation from specifications.

Strengths

  • Has a free tier
  • Competitive input pricing

Limitations

  • No native GDPR guarantee

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
Skip it if…
  • you handle sensitive EU data

Ideal use cases

  • Multilingual (Asian)
  • Commercial self-host
  • Asia apps
  • Coding

Access & availability

Paid API per tokenFree tier available

Key specifications

Context
256K
Input price
$0.78 $/M
Output price
$3.90 $/M
Speed
80 tok/s
Price verified Jun 1, 2026·Official sourceBenchmarks not audited

Estimate your monthly cost

Per-token API pricing
$51/ month with Qwen 3 Max

For the same usage

Indicative estimate based on standard API rates (excluding caching, batch and volume discounts). Always check the official pricing before committing.

Privacy

Not GDPR-compliantHosting : CN/selfAnonymizable data
Advanced data · for experts
Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
Architecture
MoE
Size
480B (35B actifs MoE)
Cutoff date
Mar 2025
Inputs
text, image
Outputs
text, code
License
apache-2
Hosting
CN/self
Hallucination score
3/5
Estimated cost (API)
Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
≈ $0.0062
1M in + 1M out
≈ $4.68
All benchmarks
Arena Elo1325
MMLU86.0%
GPQA64.0%
HumanEval87.5%
SWE-Bench38.0%
MATH88.0%

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