Is Qwen3.7 Plus a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Qwen3.7 Plus on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

11 undominated of 143 · Oct 13, 2026

As of Oct 13, 2026, Qwen3.7 Plus is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 36.9 higher and costs 4% less, with a covering envelope. 11 of 143 rated, priced standard models are undominated.

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Current model

Qwen3.7 Plus

Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is both better and cheaper than Qwen3.7 Plus: 36.9 points higher on LMArena and 4% less per million tokens, $0.020 cheaper at this mix.

Qwen3.7 Plus

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1454.8

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.560/M

MiMo-V2.6-Pro

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1491.7

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$0.540/M

Qwen3.7 Plus takes text, image, returns up to 131,072 tokens from a 1,000,000-token context, and is listed by 2 sellers.

Compared against 143 rated, priced models on this lens: 4 models dominate it and give up nothing, 1 more dominates it but gives something up. Qwen3.7 Plus scores 1454.8 at $0.560 per million tokens for this mix.

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
MiMo-V2.6-Pro1491.7 +36.9$0.540/M4%
GLM 5.3 Flash1471.1 +16.3$0.238/MPrice under confirmation since Oct 12, 202658%
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash1462.4 +7.6$0.182/MPrice under confirmation since Oct 12, 202667%
MiMo-V2.6-Flash1455.2 +0.4$0.175/MPrice under confirmation since Oct 12, 202669%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou give up
MiMo-V2.5-Pro1465.3$0.544/Mimage
MiMo-V2.6-Pro1491.7 · $0.540/MQwen3.7 Plus1454.8 · $0.560/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
143 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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