Qwen3-Max Mini: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Qwen3-Max Mini is a multimodal model from Alibaba Cloud. It offers a 128,000-token context window, costs $11.13 per million input tokens and $39.52 per million output tokens, and averages 76.5 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Qwen3-Max Mini costs $11.13 per million input tokens and $39.52 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $18.23 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.22 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $11.13 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $39.52 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.22 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $18.23 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $50.65 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.9 | 151 | 75th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.1 | 259 | 57th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 62.6 | 265 | 56th | |
| HumanEval | 83.3 | 155 | 74th | |
| MATH-500 | 82.6 | 153 | 75th | |
| AIME 2025 | 73.3 | 201 | 67th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 71.2 | 165 | 73th | |
| IFEval | 83.4 | 235 | 61th | |
| TruthfulQA | 80.4 | 169 | 72th | |
| HellaSwag | 84.2 | 272 | 55th | |
| MMMU | 70.0 | 305 | 49th | |
| Arena Elo | 1395.1 | 229 | 62th |
What Qwen3-Max Mini is good for
Qwen3-Max Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $11.13 per million input tokens with a 128,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Large 128,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Premium input pricing at $11.13 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 Instruct | Meta AI | 128000 | $4.33 | 76.6 |
| Nemotron 4 | NVIDIA | 65536 | $4.18 | 76.6 |
| Qwen3-Coder Base | Alibaba Cloud | 200000 | $3.99 | 76.6 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Mini | Anthropic | 32768 | $11.43 | 76.5 |
| Qwen3-Max Mini | Alibaba Cloud | 128000 | $11.13 | 76.5 |
| Yi-Lightning Instruct | 01.AI | 128000 | $4.16 | 76.5 |
FAQ
How much does Qwen3-Max Mini cost?
Qwen3-Max Mini is listed at $11.13 per million input tokens and $39.52 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.22 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $18.23 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Qwen3-Max Mini?
Qwen3-Max Mini has a context window of 128,000 tokens and can emit up to 4,096 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Qwen3-Max Mini open weights?
No. Qwen3-Max Mini is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Qwen3-Max Mini score on benchmarks?
Qwen3-Max Mini averages 76.5 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #207 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1395.1.
What is Qwen3-Max Mini best for?
Qwen3-Max Mini is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $11.13 per million input tokens with a 128,000-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.