The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·Alibaba vs Alibaba

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — head-to-head comparison

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview — Alibaba
Quality
#9 of 62
90based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#161 of 317
47.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#265 of 370
$2.34
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.04 · Out $6.24
Cache hit price
#136 of 238
$0.13
per 1M tokens (−88%)
Context
#158 of 375
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#188 of 317
43.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#252 of 370
$1.88
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $3.75
Cache hit price
#191 of 238
$0.25
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#103 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores 90 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 3-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 3.

Blended pricing is $2.34 per 1M tokens for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview and $1.88 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is about 1.2× cheaper.

Throughput is 48 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview and 43 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.6s and 1.2s. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview accepts 262k tokens of context against 1.00M.

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview is proprietary; Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max is proprietary. 1 tracked host serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 90 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $2.34 $1.88
Output tok/s 48 43
Context window 262k 1.00M
Providers 1 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 90 93
Mathematics Index 91 95
Agentic Index 87 88
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond89 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2591 / 95
SWE-bench Verified77 / 77

Right-hand figures read Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads on 0 of 3, Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max on 3.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,456 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,460 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $1.04 $1.25
Output $/1M $6.24 $3.75
Blended $/1M $2.34 $1.88
Cache read $/1M $0.130 $0.250
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 262k 1.00M
Max output tokens 66k 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 48 43
Time to first token 1.6s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

1 host · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Alibaba · first party $2.34 38 $1.88 50

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →