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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
#19 of 65
79based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#236 of 338
35.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#194 of 442
$0.73
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.33 · Out $1.95
Cache hit price
#108 of 324
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−85%)
Context
#112 of 476
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max — Alibaba
Quality
#6 of 65
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#114 of 338
63.6
Output tokens per second
Price
#319 of 442
$2.21
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.48 · Out $4.42
Cache hit price
#276 of 324
$0.29
per 1M tokens (−80%)
Context
#149 of 476
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus scores 79 and Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max scores 93 — a 14-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 35 tokens per second for Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus and 64 for Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max, with time to first token at 1.0s and 0.9s. 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 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 79 based on 3 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.73 $2.21
Output tok/s 35 64
Context window 1.00M 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 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Known Good Index 79 93
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 Diamond88 / 91
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 96
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

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 131k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricQwen: Qwen3.6 PlusQwen: Qwen3.7 Max
Output tokens/s 35 64
Time to first token 1.0s 0.9s
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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 33 $2.21 52

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 →