Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview)
Qwen 3.6 Max (Preview) is an API-only (closed weights) language model from Qwen, released April 20, 2026. The context window is 256K tokens. On the Epoch Capabilities Index it scores 149.8, rank 72 of 256 rated models. API price: $1.3 input / $7.8 output per million tokens.
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Lab
Qwen
Released
April 20, 2026
Weights
API-only (closed weights)
Parameters
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Context
256K
Price / M tokens
$1.3 / $7.8 in / out
Epoch ECI
149.8 #72
Strengths by category
ModelTape's 0–100 fit on Epoch AI benchmark results.
| Category | Score | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 18.4 | SimpleBench, Mystery Game Puzzles |
| Math | 54.7 | OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025, FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private, FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private |
| Knowledge | 75.1 | GPQA diamond, SimpleQA Verified |
Benchmark results
| Benchmark (Epoch AI) | Score |
|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 91.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 86.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.7% |
| SimpleBench | 55.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 52.0% |
| FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private | 40.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 10.8% |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private | 6.9% |
Links
Models with a similar score
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