whatmodel.sh / Qwen-Max (2024-09-19)

Qwen-Max (2024-09-19) is a closed-weights language model from Alibaba, released September 2024.

Catalogue identity notes

Comparison-only. Arena entry 'qwen-max-0919' (text). LMArena's leaderboard table (arena-leaderboard space @6f2eeeb) labels 'qwen-max-0919' as 'Qwen-Max-0919' (Alibaba, Qwen), linking https://help.aliyun.com/zh/dashscope/developer-reference/model-introduction. Released 2024-09: date in Alibaba's snapshot id qwen-max-2024-09-19. Arena 'qwen-max-0919' is Alibaba's own short alias for snapshot qwen-max-2024-09-19 (archived Model Studio help pages); retired.

55.7±3.3comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen-Max (2024-09-19), out of 1132 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
393Nemotron Nano 9B v2 NVIDIA56±1api $0.10/M +local~7.6GB2025-08
394Grok 2 (2024-08-13) SpaceXAI (xAI)56±3comparison only2024-08
395Qwen-Max (2024-09-19) Alibaba56±3comparison only2024-09
396Hunyuan-Large-Vision Tencent56±3comparison only2025-05
397K2-Think MBZUAI IFM (LLM360)56±4local~21GB2025-09
more from Alibaba
18Qwen3.8 Max (2.4T-A95B) Alibaba78±1api $3.00/M +local~380GB2026-08
34Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Alibaba76±1api $3.00/M2026-09
37Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Alibaba75±1local~59GB2026-08

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$ what it's good at

chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▅▆█▆▆▆▂ #277 of 579 * · 95% of its score · 1 test

Beats Granite 4.2 8B, Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Thinking, Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6.5B) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct, LFM2.5 1.2B Thinking, Gemma 3 12B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
LMArena (text)1318.1 ✎▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆▆▇█▃ beats 151/379avg 1268▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 95%blunt

$ where to run it

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$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 95%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 95%CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 5%
weighted average= 55.7

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