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Qwen 3 Max — Chinese-English multilingual
Alibaba's Qwen 3 Max is the leading open-weights model for high-quality Chinese work and does English surprisingly well.
Builders · Model Families · ~16 min read
The Chinese frontier
Qwen 3 Max leads most Chinese-language benchmarks and keeps pace with flagship GPT models on English ones. For any product serving Mandarin users it should be on your shortlist.
- State of the art on Chinese reasoning and writing
- Strong code generation
- Open weights for 30B-class variants, larger Max via API
- Available on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope)
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| Language | Qwen 3 Max | GPT-5.5 | DeepSeek V3.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | Excellent | Strong | Excellent |
| English | Strong | Excellent | Strong |
| Japanese | Good | Strong | Good |
| Open weights | Partial family | No | Yes |
DashScope is Alibaba's hosted access point.
from dashscope import Generation resp = Generation.call(model="qwen-max", prompt="Summarize this article")Deployment options
Alibaba's DashScope for hosted access, or download the 30B-class open weights and self-host via vLLM. Together and Fireworks also host Qwen 3 variants in US data centers.
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