Qwen3 Max is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.78 / 1M input and $3.90 / 1M output. Alibaba's top-tier flagship LLM in the Qwen3 series, delivering leading performance across knowledge, reasoning, coding, and instruction-following benchmarks.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 10 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 1 year ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
24.0
#139
Math Index
80.7
#59
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#38
GPQA
0.8
#147
HLE
0.1
#140
LiveCodeBench
0.8
#38
IFBench
0.4
#193
Time to First Token
1.72s
#429
SciCode
0.4
#135
AIME 2025
0.8
#59
LCR
0.5
#166
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#142
TAU2
0.7
#128
Output TPS
49.3
#212

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities6/13
Reasoning
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Native JSON Schema
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Cache Write 5m
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-max
$1.20$6.00N/AN/A$0.6$3.00
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-max
$2.11$8.45N/AN/A
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-max
$0.78$3.90$0.156$0.975
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max
$1.20$6.00$0.24N/A

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.04$6.24Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.780$3.90Current
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max31K$0.345$1.38Available
Qwen VL Max131K$0.800$3.20Available
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable
Qwen3 7 Max Preview$2.50$7.50Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen Audio 3 Flash RealtimeFlash$0.413$4.13
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus$0.688$5.50
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3.7 PlusPlus1.0M$0.320$1.28
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.150$0.500
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.140$0.450
Qwen3.6 PlusPlus1.0M$0.325$1.95
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B262K$0.150$0.600
Qwen Plus ThinkingPlus1.0M$0.260$0.780

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-max
alibaba/qwen3-max
dashscope/qwen3-max
dashscope/qwen3-max-2026-01-23
novita/qwen/qwen3-max
qwen/qwen3-max
Qwen/Qwen3-Max
qwen3-max
qwen3-max-2025-09-23
qwen3-max-2026-01-23