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Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen3.7 Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series, a text-in, text-out model built for agent-centric work such as coding, office and productivity tasks.

QwenVerified 25/09/2026Released 21/05/2026

01 / decision

Decision snapshot

Each figure sits next to the middle of the field, so it can be read as dear or cheap, wide or narrow, rather than floating on its own. Compared against the 231 models we track, not against an absolute standard.

Capability

Not measured

No published benchmark scores yet

Input / 1M tokens

$1.48

field median $0.43

Output / 1M tokens

$4.43

field median $1.81

Context

1,000K

field median 500K

02 / overview

What Qwen3.7 Max is, and when to reach for it

Four questions, answered separately, because somebody arrives at one of them rather than at the top of the page.

What it is

The job it was built for, and the job it is not for.

Qwen3.7 Max is a text-only large language model positioned at the top of the Qwen3.7 line. It was built for agentic workloads, meaning long chains of tool calls and multi-step tasks rather than single-turn chat, with coding and office or productivity work called out as its strengths. It does not handle images, audio or video, so anything involving document scans, screenshots or speech needs a different model in the pipeline.

When it arrived, and when to use it

Where it sits in its line, and when a sibling is the better pick.

Qwen3.7 Max first appeared in May 2026 as the flagship of the Qwen3.7 series, which means it sits above the smaller and cheaper members of the same family. Reach for it when a task runs long, touches a lot of source material or chains several tools together and you want one model to hold the whole thing. For short, high-volume classification or extraction jobs, a smaller Qwen sibling will do the same work for less.

How you reach it

The API, the apps it powers, and what its limits let you do.

Qwen3.7 Max is reached through Alibaba's Qwen API and the aggregators that resell it, and it also backs the consumer-facing Qwen chat products. The context window runs to a million tokens, which is enough to hold an entire codebase, a quarter's worth of internal documents or a long agent trace without chunking, and the output ceiling is generous enough to write a full file or a long report in one pass. Everything in and out is text.

Why it matters

What changes because this exists, or why it does not.

The combination of a million-token window and a large output allowance means a coding agent can read a whole repository and then write substantial changes without the retrieval scaffolding teams normally have to build and maintain. That was awkward before at this price point. For teams already running Qwen models, it is the step up you take when a workflow outgrows the smaller variants rather than a change of direction.

Follows Qwen3.6 Max Preview. Superseded by Qwen3.7 Plus. See the whole line.

03 / evidence

How much of this is verified

Split by category, so a strong number never hides a thin evidence base. Verified means we read it on the benchmark's own published results; a provider's claim about its own model is shown and labelled rather than dropped.

No published benchmark scores for this model yet.

We publish a score only where we can link the result to where it was published. Until a benchmark result for this model exists in a source we read, this section stays empty rather than being filled with a provider's marketing figure.

How we decide what counts as evidence

04 / ledger

Benchmark ledger

Every published row, grouped by category, each compared with the best published score on the same benchmark. 'Is 64% good' is a question nobody can answer; '26 points behind the leader' is one anybody can.

Nothing in the ledger yet.

Each row here carries a score, the benchmark it came from, what the leading model scored on the same test, and a link to the published result. Rows appear as results are published and read.

How we decide what counts as evidence

05 / capability

Capability shape

Where this model is strong, and against how many peers. Ranks are against models with evidence in that category, not against everything we track: ranking against models nobody tested would rank who published, not who is better.

No category scores to shape yet.

A category score is the weighted mean of the benchmarks published for it. With no published rows there is nothing to average, and an empty chart drawn at zero would say something false.

How we decide what counts as evidence

06 / cost

What it costs

List API rates as last read from the provider, with the source on every row, plus every change we have recorded since we started tracking it.

Qwen3.7 Max API pricingSurge45°
ChargePriceUnitRead onSource
Input$1.48per 1M tokens2026-09-24Check
Output$4.43per 1M tokens2026-09-24Check

Qwen3.7 Max is priced in the mid range for a flagship model, well below the Western frontier tier while sitting above the small open-weight options. Given the context window it carries, the cost of stuffing a very large document set into a single call is lower than most models that can hold that much.

What a month costsSurge45°
WorkloadInput / monthOutput / monthCost
A small product team20M tokens5M tokens$51.63
A busy support assistant200M tokens40M tokens$472.00
A document pipeline1000M tokens100M tokens$1,917.50

List API rates, no caching and no batch discount, which both providers offer and which change the answer a great deal. Treat these as the ceiling, not the bill.

07 / specs

Specifications

As listed by the provider's own catalogue and re-read every few hours. Anything absent is absent there too.

SpecificationSurge45°
Context window1,000,000 tokens
Maximum output131,072 tokens
Modalitiestext
Released21/05/2026
StatusCurrent
Catalogue identifierqwen/qwen3.7-max

08 / lineage

Lineage

What this model replaced, what replaced it, and what else its provider has in the field.

Also from Qwen

09 / line

The line

Every model in this family in release order, so a page from eight months ago says in one glance that two newer ones exist.

  1. 01Qwen3 14B28/04/2025
  2. 02Qwen3 235B A22B28/04/2025
  3. 03Qwen3 30B A3B28/04/2025
  4. 04Qwen3 32B28/04/2025
  5. 05Qwen3 8B28/04/2025
  6. 06Qwen3.5 397B A17B16/02/2026
  7. 07Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-1516/02/2026
  8. 08Qwen3.5-122B-A10B25/02/2026
  9. 09Qwen3.5-27B25/02/2026
  10. 10Qwen3.5-35B-A3B25/02/2026
  11. 11Qwen3.5-Flash25/02/2026
  12. 12Qwen3.5-9B10/03/2026
  13. 13Qwen3.6 Plus02/04/2026
  14. 14Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-2027/04/2026
  15. 15Qwen3.6 27B27/04/2026
  16. 16Qwen3.6 35B A3B27/04/2026
  17. 17Qwen3.6 Flash27/04/2026
  18. 18Qwen3.6 Max Preview27/04/2026
  19. 19Qwen3.7 Max21/05/2026
  20. 20Qwen3.7 Plus03/06/2026
  21. 21Qwen3.7 Flash27/07/2026
  22. 22Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B12/08/2026
  23. 23Qwen3.8 27B14/08/2026
  24. 24Qwen3.8 Flash26/08/2026
  25. 25Qwen3.8 Max (0902)03/09/2026
  26. 26Qwen3.8 Omni Flash21/09/2026
  27. 27Qwen3.8 Max Prime23/09/2026

Ordered by release date and worked out from the naming, so a new member slots in as soon as its page exists. A retired model keeps its page and its place in the line.

10 / notes

Our notes

What this model changes for a brand trying to be cited in AI answers, and every change we have logged since it launched.

What it changes for you

If any share of your buyers sits in markets where Qwen powers the default assistant, this model is now part of how your category gets summarised, and it reads plain text only. That puts weight on having your product facts in crawlable HTML rather than in screenshots, diagrams or video. The very large context window also means whole documentation sites can be pulled into a single answer, so gaps and contradictions across your pages are more likely to surface together.

Where buyers meet this model

Buyers meet Qwen3.7 Max most often inside the Qwen consumer chat apps and through Alibaba Cloud's model service, where it is the default flagship choice. Developers encounter it through the Qwen API directly or via model marketplaces that carry the series. Its reach is strongest in Chinese-language markets and among teams building on Alibaba Cloud, so it matters more for some buyer bases than others.

Change log

Nothing published here yet. Changes appear within hours of a provider announcing them.

11 / questions

Questions

The things people ask about this model, answered from what is on this page rather than from anywhere else.

Can Qwen3.7 Max read images or PDFs?
No. Qwen3.7 Max handles text input and text output only. Anything visual needs to be converted to text before it reaches the model, or routed to a multimodal model instead.
What is Qwen3.7 Max best used for?
Agent-centric workloads. The provider calls out coding, office and productivity tasks in particular, which in practice means multi-step jobs with tool calls rather than short single-turn queries.
How does Qwen3.7 Max differ from the rest of the Qwen3.7 series?
It is the flagship, so it is the most capable and most expensive member of the family. Smaller siblings are the better pick for high-volume, short-context work where the extra capability is not being used.
Surge45°

Is Qwen3.7 Max recommending you?

Models change what gets cited. We measure whether AI answers name your brand or your competitors across every assistant, and show you what to change.