Qwen3 Max is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.359 / 1M input and $1.43 / 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 · 9 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff · 12 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
24.0
#129
Coding Index
26.4
#136
Math Index
80.7
#59
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#38
GPQA
0.8
#135
HLE
0.1
#128
LiveCodeBench
0.8
#38
IFBench
0.4
#189
Time to First Token
1.98s
#423
SciCode
0.4
#124
AIME 2025
0.8
#59
LCR
0.5
#154
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#140
TAU2
0.7
#125
Output TPS
58.8
#194

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
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-max-2025-09-23
$0.861$3.44N/AN/A$0.43$1.72
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-max-2026-01-23
$0.359$1.43N/AN/A$0.179$0.717
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

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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$0.359$1.43Current
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max33K$1.60$6.40Available
Qwen VL Max131K$0.800$2.87Available
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3.7 PlusPlus1.0M$0.320$1.28
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.288$3.17
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.150$1.00
Qwen3.6 PlusPlus1.0M$0.325$1.95
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B128K$0.140$1.20
Qwen3 Coder PlusPlus1.0M$0.650$3.25
Qwen3 Coder FlashFlash1.0M$0.195$0.975
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B262K$0.150$0.600
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct262K$0.450$1.80

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