Qwen3 Max Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 3 providers, starting at $0.78 / 1M input and $3.90 / 1M output. Alibaba's flagship reasoning-focused LLM in the Qwen3 series, featuring adaptive tool-use and advanced test-time scaling for complex problem solving.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 7 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#115
GPQA
#80
HLE
#81
IFBench
#61
Time to First Token
#35
SciCode
#91
LCR
#88
TerminalBench Hard
#134
TAU2
#105
Output TPS
#276

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
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
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max-Thinking
$1.20$6.00$0.24
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking
$0.78$3.90N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
$1.20$6.00$0.24

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.95Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.03$6.16Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Current
Qwen3 Max262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Available
Qwen VL Max131K$0.800$3.20Available
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$2.00$6.00
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Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASRFlash
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR FiletransFlash
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR StreamingFlash
Qwen Audio 3 Flash RealtimeFlash$0.450$4.50
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-max-thinking
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max-Thinking
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking
Qwen/Qwen3-Max-Thinking
qwen3-max-thinking
qwen3-max-thinking-preview