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 · 8 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
31.4
#126
Coding Index
26.4
#129
Math Index
80.7
#59
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#38
GPQA
0.8
#128
HLE
0.1
#120
LiveCodeBench
0.8
#38
IFBench
0.4
#179
Time to First Token
1.84s
#407
SciCode
0.4
#117
AIME 2025
0.8
#59
LCR
0.5
#146
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#133
TAU2
0.7
#117
Output TPS
32.9
#252

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

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 Max262K$0.359$1.43Current
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Available
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