Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13)
AlibabaProprietary
Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) is a vision-language model from Alibaba. It ranks 87 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1213±12 from 3,170 votes. Its best category is Diagrams (#60 of 123). License: Proprietary.
Key figures
- Developer
- Alibaba
- License
- Proprietary
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor, Chinese.
Who it suits
- Overall #87 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Strongest category: Diagrams (#60 of 123).
- Proprietary; used through Alibaba’s apps or API.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84 |  Mistral Large 3 Mistral | 1220 | 9,254 | Apache 2.0 | +7 |
| 85 |  GPT-6 Luna (Max) OpenAI | 1216 | 3,662 | Proprietary | +3 |
| 86 | o3 (2025-04-16) OpenAI | 1214 | 45,567 | Proprietary | +1 |
| 87 | Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) Alibaba | 1213 | 3,170 | Proprietary | |
| 88 | GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14) OpenAI | 1210 | 40,998 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 89 |  Grok 4 (0709) xAI | 1210 | 30,173 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 90 | GPT-5 (High) OpenAI | 1208 | 34,445 | Proprietary | -5 |
Alternatives · More from Alibaba
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba | 1313 | 9,957 | Proprietary |
| 37 | Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba | 1278 | 14,212 | Proprietary |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
| 54 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba | 1262 | 32,657 | Apache 2.0 |
| 67 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct Alibaba | 1247 | 12,724 | Apache 2.0 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) rank among vision models?
Overall rank 87 (1213); OCR rank 81 (1236); Diagrams rank 60 (1268); English rank 86 (1227) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) at OCR?
Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) ranks 81 of 123 on LMArena’s OCR board with 1236 (1,120 votes).
Is Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) open-weight?
No. LMArena lists it as Proprietary; it is available through Alibaba’s apps or API.
How far is Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Qwen-VL-Max (2025-08-13) has 1213, 112 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.