Alibaba (Qwen) · closed · 2026-05

Qwen3.7-Max

#1 index 88.9
the take

Frontier scores across the board and hardly anyone in the West is talking about it. Two catches: it is closed weights despite Alibaba's open Qwen line, and it is a token furnace that inflates the real bill.

benchmarks
specs
Context
1M
Input
$2.5/M
Output
$7.5/M
Speed
Modality
text
strengths
  • Frontier reasoning, coding and math
  • 1M context, strong agentic behavior
  • Open-weights sibling line (Qwen3.6) exists
weaknesses
  • Closed/API-only, unlike the group
  • Very verbose, inflating effective cost
  • Text-only

Sources: [1][2]