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
#168
Math Index
#77
MMLU-Pro
#75
GPQA
#181
HLE
#168
LiveCodeBench
#158
IFBench
#156
Time to First Token
#521
SciCode
#175
AIME 2025
#77
LCR
#169
TerminalBench Hard
#167
TAU2
#106
Output TPS
#180

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$1.03$6.16Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
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 ThinkingCurrent
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B1.0M$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$0.450$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-preview
qwen3-max-thinking-preview