Qwen 3.9 Max

Alibaba's next Qwen flagship after Qwen 3.8 Max, built for coding and long agent tasks

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About Qwen 3.9 Max

Qwen 3.9 Max is the next flagship of Alibaba's Qwen family, after Qwen 3.8 Max, released on August 3, 2026. Qwen 3.8 Max is a mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion parameters, about 95 billion of them active, and reads up to 1 million tokens of text, images and video

The Qwen Max line is built for coding and agent tasks that run for hundreds or thousands of steps. Qwen 3.9 Max comes before Qwen 4, the next Qwen generation, which Alibaba is training now

Qwen 3.9 Max is expected by the end of 2026

Developer
Alibaba Cloud
Status
In development
Expected
Late 2026
Previous model
Qwen 3.8 Max
Strengths
Code, agents, long context
Family
Qwen

Qwen 3.9 Max main features

Long agent tasks in code, 1 million tokens of text, images and video, the next Qwen Max, and 201 languages

Qwen 3.9 Max adding a returns flow to an online store: 1,120 files read, the page, API and emails written, 486 tests passed

Long agent tasks in code

Qwen Max models are built for agentic coding with tasks of hundreds or thousands of steps. Ask Qwen 3.9 Max for a returns flow in an online store, and it reads the project, writes the code, runs the tests and sums up the changes

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An app archive with 2,300 files and a 48-second screen recording attached, Qwen 3.9 Max picked and a question about a checkout bug

1 million tokens of context

Qwen 3.8 Max holds up to 1 million tokens and reads text, images and video, and Qwen 3.9 Max keeps all of it. Attach the whole app and a screen recording of a bug and ask where it starts

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Qwen Max models: Qwen3-Max in September 2025, Qwen 3.7 Max in May 2026, Qwen 3.8 Max in August 2026 and Qwen 3.9 Max coming soon

The next Qwen Max

Alibaba released Qwen3-Max in September 2025, Qwen 3.7 Max in May 2026 and Qwen 3.8 Max in August, each its strongest model at launch. Qwen 3.9 Max is next in the line

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Qwen 3.9 Max translating “Free returns within 30 days” into Japanese, Portuguese and Arabic

201 languages and dialects

Qwen models read and write 201 languages and dialects. Ask Qwen 3.9 Max to translate a store banner for Japan, Brazil and Egypt and get all three versions in one answer

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Why use Qwen 3.9 Max on Overchat AI

One account for chat, images and video, on every device

Superchat splitting one request between Claude Opus 5.5 for the plan and Nano Banana 2.1 for the poster

Superchat AI agent

Superchat Agent automatically routes your message to the model best suited for the task. It can generate images and videos, use the AI tools built into Overchat AI, and learn from your interactions to get better over time

Message field with a PDF, a spreadsheet and a dashboard screenshot attached and a voice message being recorded

Chat with images and files

Upload PDFs, spreadsheets, code and images and ask about them in the chat. You can also dictate a message instead of typing it

An image made with Nano Banana 2.1 and a surfing video made with Seedance 2.5

Go beyond text

Generate images with Nano Banana and GPT Image and videos with Seedance and Kling in the same account, with the same credits as chat

Overchat AI on the web, iPhone and Android, and the Superchat screen of the iPhone app

On the web, iPhone and Android

Start a chat on your laptop and finish it on your phone. The Overchat AI app has the same models, and your chats stay in one account on every device

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How to use Qwen 3.9 Max on Overchat AI

On the web, iOS or Android

  1. The Models menu with Qwen 3.9 Max picked above Qwen 3.8 Max, Kimi K3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro and GLM 5.3
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    Pick Qwen 3.9 Max

    Open the model list next to the message field and choose Qwen 3.9 Max

  2. Message field with a prompt asking for a SQL query that finds customers who ordered three months in a row
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    Write your prompt

    Describe the task: what you need, the format and the length. Attach files or images if the task needs them

  3. Qwen 3.9 Max's answer about the SQL query and a follow-up asking to make it run on PostgreSQL 13
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    Get the answer and keep going

    Ask a follow-up, ask for a shorter version or switch to another model without starting over

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Qwen 3.9 Max is the next flagship model of Alibaba's Qwen family after Qwen 3.8 Max. It is built for coding, long agent tasks and work with large files

Qwen 3.9 Max is expected by the end of 2026, most likely in November. Alibaba released Qwen 3.7 Max in May 2026 and Qwen 3.8 Max on August 3

Not yet. The newest Qwen flagship is Qwen 3.8 Max, released on August 3, 2026

Qwen 3.8 Max is: its weights came out on August 12, 2026 as Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, and only companies with over $50 million in yearly revenue need a commercial license. Qwen 3.7 Max had no open weights

No. Qwen 3.9 Max is the next model of the Qwen 3 generation, after Qwen 3.8 Max. Qwen 4 is the next generation, which Alibaba is training now

Not yet. On Overchat AI you can use Qwen 3.8 Max, Alibaba's newest flagship, or Superchat, which picks the model for you. Qwen 3.9 Max will be added once it is out

Qwen 3.8 Max, released on August 3, 2026. It reads text, images and video, keeps up to 1 million tokens in context and is in the Overchat AI chat