# O3 Mini vs Qwen3 Max

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen3 Max in 2 of 4 shared categories: General LLM and Science.

O3 Mini: $1.9250000000000003 per 1M blended tokens.

Qwen3 Max: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

O3 Mini: closed weights.

Qwen3 Max: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen3 Max in General LLM at #10 against #115.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 Max leads O3 Mini in Reasoning at #108 against #172.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini leads Qwen3 Max in Science at #76 against #84.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 Max leads O3 Mini in Long context at #118 against #186.

As of Oct 15, 2026, O3 Mini is a former state-of-the-art holder in Reasoning (since Feb 9, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Qwen3 Max is ranked #84 in Science (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).