Command A vs Qwen3-Max
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
Alibaba (Qwen) · Sep 2025
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Qwen3-Max is about 1.8x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). And Command A is open-weights (CC-BY-NC 4.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Command A | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 80.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $1.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $6 |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 66K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $21.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Command A or Qwen3-Max?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Qwen3-Max is about 1.8x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). And Command A is open-weights (CC-BY-NC 4.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3-Max?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Max costs $1.2/$6. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $21.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or Qwen3-Max?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.