Qwen3 Max Preview is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $1.20 / 1M input and $6.00 / 1M output. A preview release of the Qwen3 Max flagship LLM, showcasing substantial gains in Chinese-English understanding and complex instruction following over the 2.5 series.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max-preview
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 8 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
26.1
#163
Coding Index
25.5
#136
Math Index
75.0
#74
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#40
GPQA
0.8
#128
HLE
0.1
#149
LiveCodeBench
0.7
#89
IFBench
0.5
#153
Time to First Token
1.72s
#399
SciCode
0.4
#135
AIME 2025
0.8
#74
LCR
0.4
#171
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#135
TAU2
0.3
#210
Output TPS
51.9
#214

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities3/13
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-preview
$1.20$6.00N/A$0.600$3.00
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max-preview
$1.20$6.00$0.240

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Preset:

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 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Current
Qwen3 Max262K$0.359$1.43Available
Qwen Max33K$1.60$6.40Available
Qwen VL Max131K$2.87$2.87Available
Qwen3 Max ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

Other models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.290$3.20
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.140$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
Qwen Plus ThinkingPlus1.0M$0.260$0.780

Model IDs