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Qwen3 Max ThinkingOPEN
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Qwen3 Max Thinking, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
About this model
Qwen3 Max Thinking is an open-weight AI model by Alibaba. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Qwen3 Max Thinking?
Qwen3 Max Thinking is an AI language model from Alibaba. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 31.7 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Qwen3 Max Thinking free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Qwen3 Max Thinking and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.78 per million input tokens and $3.9 per million output tokens.
What is Qwen3 Max Thinking good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 86.1%, Humanity's Last Exam 26.2%, Long Context Reasoning 66%, SciCode 43.1%, IFBench 70.7%, τ²-Bench 83.6%, Terminal-Bench Hard 24.2%.
Can I self-host Qwen3 Max Thinking?
Yes. Qwen3 Max Thinking has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.
Open-source alternatives
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