Model comparison
o3-pro vs Qwen3 Max
o3-pro and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. o3-pro scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 Max in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.2 to 41.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 97.2% for o3-pro and 66.7% for Qwen3 Max.
- Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
- Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| o3-pro | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 43.7 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2025-09-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Max output | 100K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $20 | $1.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $80 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-pro leads
o3-pro: 55.5 (#24), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 84.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 58.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1456 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 370.45 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
o3-pro: —, Qwen3 Max: —
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |
Reasoning o3-pro leads
o3-pro: 23.8 (#171), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 72.1% | 72.5% |
| DTBench | 86.9% | 82.1% |
| LMCA | 38.5% | 28.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 147.42 | 142.38 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 59.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1448 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
Math Not comparable
o3-pro: —, Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.9% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1446 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 97.1% |
Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads
o3-pro: 29.5 (#238), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 72.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48.7% |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 23.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1455 |
Multilingual Not comparable
o3-pro: —, Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1478 |
| LMArena French | — | 1449 |
| LMArena German | — | 1463 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1462 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
o3-pro: —, Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1419 |
Long Context o3-pro leads
o3-pro: 72.2 (#1), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 97.2% | 66.7% |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1438 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads
o3-pro: 57.1 (#133), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)
| Benchmark | o3-pro | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1402 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1446 |
Frequently asked questions
Is o3-pro better than Qwen3 Max?
o3-pro and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, o3-pro or Qwen3 Max?
Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.
Is o3-pro or Qwen3 Max better for coding?
o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do o3-pro and Qwen3 Max share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. o3-pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.