Qwen

Qwen 3 Max — Benchmark Scores, Pricing & Performance Analysis

OPEN SOURCEQwen
Chatbot Arena ELO
1340
Output Speed
55 tok/s
Input Cost
$0.78/1M
Output Cost
$3.9/1M
Context Window
262K
Max Output
66K
Knowledge Cutoff
Jun 2025
Accepts
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Qwen 3 Max by Qwen demonstrates strong general intelligence. View detailed benchmark data including scores across coding, math, reasoning, speed, and cost metrics.

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General Benchmarks

Chatbot Arena ELO
134033rd of 74

Human preference ELO from blind head-to-head votes

LMSYS / HuggingFace
MMLU-Pro
79.0%27th of 66

Massive Multitask Language Understanding professional benchmark

HuggingFace Leaderboard

Coding Benchmarks

Website Arena ELO
113176th of 108

Human preference ELO for building a working web page from a brief

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)
LiveCodeBench
50.0%33rd of 66

Live competitive programming benchmark

livecodebench.github.io
HumanEval+
86.0%30th of 66

Code generation correctness with extended tests

Papers
SWE-bench Verified
46.0%34th of 67

Real-world software engineering task resolution

swebench.com
Design Arena ELO
110884th of 120

Human preference ELO for building things — websites, UI, games, charts, SVG

Design Arena (via OpenRouter)

Math Benchmarks

GSM8K
94.0%27th of 66

Grade school math word problems

Papers
MATH
84.0%28th of 66

Competition mathematics problem solving

Papers

Reasoning Benchmarks

ARC-AGI
40.0%22nd of 66

Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for general intelligence

arcprize.org
GPQA Diamond
58.0%105th of 140

Graduate-level science Q&A by domain experts

Papers

Speed Benchmarks

Time to First Token
500 ms59th of 92

Latency before first token arrives

Aggregated
Output Speed
55 tok/s75th of 94

Tokens generated per second

Aggregated

Cost Benchmarks

Cached Input Cost
$0.1684th of 136

Cost per 1M cached input tokens — the price that actually applies to a long agent conversation

OpenRouter API
Output Cost
$3.9293rd of 413

Cost per 1M output tokens

OpenRouter API
Input Cost
$0.78281st of 413

Cost per 1M input tokens

OpenRouter API

Context Benchmarks

Context Length
262K108th of 451

Maximum context window size

OpenRouter API

Qwen 3 Max — Benchmark Scores Overview

Scores normalized to percentage scale for visual comparison. ELO scores mapped to 0-100 range (1100-1500).

Qwen 3 Max — Frequently Asked Questions

How intelligent is Qwen 3 Max?

Qwen 3 Max scores 1340 on the Chatbot Arena ELO rating, making it a mid-tier AI model. This score is based on blind head-to-head human preference voting.

How much does Qwen 3 Max cost?

Qwen 3 Max costs $0.78 per 1M input tokens and $3.9 per 1M output tokens. This is mid-range pricing for its capability level.

How fast is Qwen 3 Max?

Qwen 3 Max generates output at 55 tokens per second, which is slower, prioritizing quality over speed compared to other models. The time to first token is 500 ms.

How good is Qwen 3 Max at coding?

Qwen 3 Max achieves 46.0% on SWE-bench Verified, demonstrating moderate real-world software engineering capability. This benchmark tests the model's ability to resolve actual GitHub issues.

How good is Qwen 3 Max at math and reasoning?

Qwen 3 Max scores 84.0% on the MATH benchmark (competition-level mathematics). It also achieves 58.0% on GPQA Diamond, a graduate-level science reasoning benchmark.

What is the context window of Qwen 3 Max?

Qwen 3 Max has a context window of 262K tokens. This determines how much text, conversation history, and code the model can process in a single request.

Who created Qwen 3 Max?

Qwen 3 Max was created by Qwen. It is classified as a open source model in our catalogue.

Is Qwen 3 Max open source?

Yes, Qwen 3 Max is an open-source model. The model weights are publicly available for download and self-hosting.