Qwen3 Max Thinking is Alibaba's language model with a 262K context window and up to 66K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.78 / 1M input and $3.90 / 1M output. Alibaba's flagship reasoning-focused LLM in the Qwen3 series, featuring adaptive tool-use and advanced test-time scaling for complex problem solving.
Specifications
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max-thinking
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 5 months ago
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
31.7
#78
GPQA
0.9
#47
HLE
0.3
#45
IFBench
0.7
#53
Time to First Token
SciCode
0.4
#58
LCR
0.7
#50
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#123
TAU2
0.8
#97
Output TPS
0.0
#288

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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking
$0.78$3.90N/A
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
$1.20$6.00$0.24

Cost Calculator

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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$3.90Current
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 ThinkingAvailable
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable
Qwen3 7 Max Preview$2.50$7.50Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
EAGLE Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct
Qwen3.7 PlusPlus1.0M$0.320$1.28
Qwen3.6 27B262K$0.150$0.500
Qwen3.6 35B A3B262K$0.140$0.450
Qwen3.6 PlusPlus1.0M$0.325$1.95
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
Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507262K$0.220$0.880
Qwen3 30B41K$0.120$0.500

Model IDs

alibaba-qwen3-max-thinking
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
qwen/qwen3-max-thinking
Qwen/Qwen3-Max-Thinking
qwen3-max-thinking
qwen3-max-thinking-preview