Qwen3 Max Thinking vs. Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high)

Comparison between Qwen3 Max Thinking and Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high) across intelligence, price, speed, context window and more.

For details relating to our methodology, see our Methodology page.

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Intelligence
Intelligence Index
21*
28*
Humanity's Last Exam
28%
40%
CritPt
2%
9%
AA-Omniscience
−37
15
AA-LCR v1.1
74%
76%
Cost
Price per 1M Tokens
$1.74
Input Price per 1M Tokens
$2.00
Output Price per 1M Tokens
$12.00
Cache Hit Price per 1M Tokens
$0.20
Token Use
Performance
Technical specifications
Context Window
256k tokens~384 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font
1000k tokens~1,500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font
Release Date
January 2026
November 2025
Reasoning
Yes
Yes
Input modality

Supports: text

Supports: text, image, speech, and video

Output modality

Supports: text

Supports: text

Open Source (Weights)
No
No

* Estimated

Highlights

Updated
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better
No data available
Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better
No data available

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 incorporates 10 evaluations: AA-Briefcase, GDPval-AA v2, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench v4.0, SciCode, Humanity's Last Exam, GDP.pdf, CritPt, AA-Omniscience, AA-LCR v1.1
Estimate (independent evaluation forthcoming)

Intelligence Evaluations

Intelligence evaluations measured independently by Artificial Analysis · Higher is better
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Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

Agentic SaaS workflows

Agentic coding & terminal use

Coding

Reasoning & knowledge

Professional document reasoning, All-pass

Physics reasoning

Long context reasoning

Legal agentic work, criterion pass rate

Agentic business operations

Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents

Instruction following

Agentic tool use

Long-horizon agentic tasks

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Visual reasoning

AA-Omniscience

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) measures knowledge reliability and hallucination. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and has no penalty for refusing to answer. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers, and negative scores mean more incorrect than correct.

Intelligence Index Comparisons

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task
Most attractive quadrant
Pareto line

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task, segmented by token type. Lower is better

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost (USD) to run all evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

Price (USD per M Tokens)

Context Window

Context Window

Context window: tokens limit · Higher is better

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