It immediately took third place in the LMArena ranking, achieving results on par with GPT-5.

In benchmarks, the basic version without "reasoning" is in some cases 1.5 times faster than the company's previous model, especially in code and agent-based tasks. It also outperforms Claude Opus 4 and DeepSeek-V3.1.

The full version of Qwen3-Max-Thinking, with support for reasoning and Python, approaches the quality of GPT-5 Pro and Grok 4 Heavy, but it will be released later.

Qwen3-Max is available for free here: https://chat.qwen.ai/