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Qwen3 Max


Qwen3 Max is Alibaba logoAlibaba'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.
Spec
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 8 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
Intelligence Index
31.4
#119
Coding Index
26.4
#122
Math Index
80.7
#59
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#38
GPQA
0.8
#122
HLE
0.1
#115
LiveCodeBench
0.8
#38
IFBench
0.4
#174
Time to First Token
1.99s
#406
SciCode
0.4
#113
AIME 2025
0.8
#59
LCR
0.5
#140
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#126
TAU2
0.7
#108
Output TPS
33.0
#260

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

ProviderStandardBatch
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba Qwen
qwen3-max-2026-01-23
$0.359$1.43N/A$0.179$0.717
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-max
$0.780$3.90$0.156
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max
$1.20$6.00$0.240
Novita logo
Novita
novita/qwen/qwen3-max
$2.11$8.45N/A

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max262K$0.359$1.43Current
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
Qwen Max33K$1.04$4.16Available
Qwen VL Max131K$0.520$2.08Available
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B128K$0.150$1.20
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B128K$0.530$2.66
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking131K$0.117$1.36
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct131K$0.400$1.60
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking131K$0.400$4.00
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$0.220$1.80

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