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Qwen 3 Max vs o4

Qwen vs OpenAI. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Qwen 3 Max is ~9.4× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Qwen 3 Max is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Qwen

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

OpenAI

Deep-reasoning model. Spends more tokens thinking to crush math, science, and hard coding problems.

State-of-the-art math and scienceExtremely high-ceiling reasoning

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$15.00

Output / 1M$6.40$60.00

Context128K200K

Max output16K100K

LicenseOpen weightsProprietary

Released2025-11-202026-02-18

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.0—

MMLU Pro84.093.8

HumanEval87.292.3

SWE-Bench—68.0

MATH85.196.2

GPQA—82.5

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.5—

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.255

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.240

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.093

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.135

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.210

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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