Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning)

Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning)

Alibaba · Released Apr 28, 2025 Efficient
Intelligence #255 / 556
33.6 Our Score
Speed #66 / 257
139.6 tokens / sec
Input #215 / 557
$0.110 per 1M tokens
Output #336 / 557
$1.26 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning) sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #255 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.110 input and $1.26 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

Qwen3 1.7B Reasoning is a compact model with very limited intelligence and coding capability, suited only to lightweight tasks where minimal compute cost matters.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence2Technical1.8Value7Content3
Intelligence 2/10
Technical 1.8/10
Content 3/10
Value 7/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

8 Intelligence Index
1.4 Coding Index
26 Agentic Index
38.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 35.6% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 4.8% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 57% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 89.4% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 51% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 38.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 4.3% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 30.8% Live coding evaluation
τ²-Bench 26% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 26.9% Instruction following

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderAlibaba
Release Date April 28, 2025
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.11 $0.000110
Output $1.26 $0.001260