Qwen 3.7-Max
Qwen 3.7-Max
The previous closed Qwen flagship, now overtaken by an open 3.8-Max.
Updated
The read
3.7-Max was the production flagship of the closed Qwen line through the summer, strong across Chinese, English and a long tail of other languages. 3.8-Max has since replaced it at the top, with a stable snapshot and published weights, which leaves 3.7-Max as the model for pipelines that were built and tested against it. Alibaba still serves it, but has started retiring the older Max previews around it.
Where it shines
- Genuinely strong across Chinese, English and a long tail of languages
- Settled production behaviour
- Long context at a mid-tier price
Worth knowing first
- 3.8-Max is stronger and its weights are published
- Closed weights, so none of the open Qwen advantages apply
Index score
80.2
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 42 of 73
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Frontier
- Output
- Text, code and images in, text out
- Pricing
- Paid only
- Best for
- Existing multilingual pipelines built against it
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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