The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus vs Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ·Alibaba vs Alibaba

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus profile Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max profile All comparisons
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus — Alibaba
Quality
#18 of 61
78based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#170 of 316
47.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#167 of 340
$0.73
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.33 · Out $1.95
Cache hit price
#63 of 206
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−85%)
Context
#54 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#5 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#203 of 316
40.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#243 of 340
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#164 of 206
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#84 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus scores 78 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 16-point lead for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. They share 3 published evaluations, with Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus ahead on 0 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max ahead on 3.

Blended pricing is $0.73 per 1M tokens for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and $2.21 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus is about 3.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 48 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and 40 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.0s and 1.4s. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.00M.

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

Generated from tracked data on 26 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 78 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.73 $2.21
Output tok/s 48 40
Context window 1.00M 1.00M
Providers 1 1
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 78 93
Mathematics Index 91 95
Science Index 91 96
Agentic Index 51 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 Plus · marker = Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond87 / 92
MATH / AIME91 / 95
SWE-bench Verified58 / 77

Right-hand figures read Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus / Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus 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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Text Arena 1,437 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,444 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Input $/1M $0.33 $1.48
Output $/1M $1.95 $4.42
Blended $/1M $0.73 $2.21
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $0.295
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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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Context window 1.00M 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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 48 40
Time to first token 1.0s 1.4s
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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 Plus blendedQwen: Qwen3.6 Plus tok/s Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max blendedQwen: Qwen3.7 Max tok/s
Alibaba · first party $0.73 49 $2.21 42

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 →