Qwen3 Max Thinking is Alibaba's language model. A preview variant of the Qwen3 Max Thinking model, combining the flagship Qwen3 Max architecture with extended reasoning and test-time compute capabilities.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max-thinking-preview
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#213
Math Index
#77
MMLU-Pro
#75
GPQA
#189
HLE
#194
LiveCodeBench
#158
IFBench
#156
Time to First Token
#44
SciCode
#202
AIME 2025
#77
LCR
#197
TerminalBench Hard
#168
TAU2
#105
Output TPS
#291

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
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·

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.95Available
Qwen3.7 Max1.0M$1.25$3.75Available
Qwen3.6 Max Preview262K$1.27$7.61Deprecated
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$1.20$6.00Deprecated
Qwen3 Max262K$1.20$6.00Deprecated
Qwen3 Max Preview262K——Available
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Available
Qwen VL Max131K——Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking————Current
Qwen2.5 Max————Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B—1.0M$2.00$6.00
Qwen Image 3—————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASRFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR FiletransFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash ASR StreamingFlash————
Qwen Audio 3 Flash RealtimeFlash——$0.230$0.930
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus————
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Image 3.0 ProPro————

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-max-thinking-preview
qwen3-max-thinking-preview