Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview)

By Alibaba · released 2025-11-03 (10 months) · snapshot 2026-09-09

Not ranked · benchmark data missingproprietary
Intelligence index
16.30
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)
$1.20 / $6.00
End-to-end time
46.3s
Better than…

Is Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview) on the Pareto frontier, and what beats it?

Not ranked · benchmark data missing

Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview) does not report both selected axis metrics.

At a glance

Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview) today

Time to first answer37.8s
Output speed59 tok/s
Input modalitiesNot reported
Not plotted

Incomplete benchmark data

Intelligence and benchmark cost are both required to place this model on the frontier. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

Intelligence index
16.30
Benchmark cost
Not reported
Input / 1M tokens
1.20
Output / 1M tokens
6.00
Context window
Not reported

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Cost: total cost to run that benchmark, so reasoning tokens count. API id: qwen3-max-thinking-preview.

Matchup

Compare head to head

Deciding

Should you use Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview)?

Should you use Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview)?

No verdict: it does not report both intelligence and benchmark cost.

What is better and cheaper than Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview)?

Other models on the intelligence-vs-cost frontier

How much does Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview) cost?

$1.20/$6.00 in/out per 1M tokens, and - to run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the honest all-in number for reasoning models.

Frontier membership by axis pair

Other axis pairs where Qwen3 Max Thinking (Preview) is Pareto-optimal.

Y axisX axisOn the frontier
AA intelligence indexAA total cost to run (USD)no data
AA intelligence indexEnd-to-end total seconds
AA intelligence indexOutput speed tokens/sec
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