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Qwen3.7-Max

Alibaba's proprietary agentic reasoning flagship with a 1M context.

BalancedClosed weightsText
Field notes
Context window
1Mtokens
Max output
66Ktokens
Input price
$2.50/ 1M tokens
Output price
$7.50/ 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.25/ 1M tokens
Modalities
Text
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 2025
Released
May 2026
Approx. speed
Overview

What this model is

Qwen3.7-Max is Alibaba's current proprietary flagship (May 2026, the successor to Qwen3-Max), an agent-oriented reasoning model with a 1M-token context window and an extended-thinking mode aimed at long-horizon tasks. It posts leaderboard-topping numbers and is exceptional value — list pricing is $2.50/$7.50 per 1M tokens, and Alibaba frequently runs a 50%-off promo — with genuinely strong multilingual and math ability. Those benchmarks overstate day-to-day dependability, though — on long autonomous coding it is clearly a step below the Claude/GPT frontier, and it is text-only.

Strengths

  • Outstanding multilingual coverage
  • Strong math and reasoning benchmarks
  • 1M-token context for long tasks
  • Aggressive pricing for a flagship

Trade-offs

  • Real-world agentic coding below Claude/GPT
  • Benchmark scores overstate reliability
  • No native vision in the Max tier
  • Can loop or over-plan on long agent runs

Best for

  • Multilingual reasoning and generation
  • Math and analytical tasks
  • Cost-sensitive agentic workflows
  • Long-context document processing

Not ideal for

  • Mission-critical autonomous coding
  • Vision-dependent tasks
Capabilities

Capability profile

Normalized 0–100 scores, comparable across the whole catalog.

Reasoning85Coding76Math90Writing82Knowledge86Speed62Agentic74Vision5Multilingual92Long Context84
Reasoning
85
Coding
76
Math
90
Writing
82
Knowledge
86
Speed
62
Agentic
74
Vision
5
Multilingual
92
Long Context
84
Benchmarks

How it scores

Public benchmark results, with independent third-party results where available. Bars normalize percentages to 100 and Elo ratings to a 1500 ceiling.

Independent index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Composite of ~9–10 independent evals · Artificial Analysis
24/ 100
BenchmarkResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindependent
GeneralArtificial Analysis
24%
SWE-bench Verifiedindependent
CodingSWE-bench
69.6%
τ-benchindependent
Agenticτ-bench
74.8%
LMArena Eloindependent
GeneralLMArena
1428Elo
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