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 $1.20 / 1M input and $6.00 / 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
StatusDeprecated
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 10 months ago
Deprecation Date
Benchmarks
GPQA
#88
HLE
#112
IFBench
#60
Time to First Token
#45
SciCode
#128
LCR
#105
TerminalBench Hard
#134
TAU2
#104
Output TPS
#292

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
DeepInfra logo
DeepInfra
deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max-Thinking
$1.20$6.00$0.24
Vercel AI Gateway logo
Vercel AI Gateway
alibaba/qwen3-max-thinking
$1.20$6.00$0.24

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3.8 Max1.0M$1.65$4.95Available
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$1.20$6.00Current
Qwen3 Max262K$1.20$6.00Deprecated
Qwen Max31K$1.60$6.40Available
Qwen VL Max131K——Available
Qwen2.5 Max————Available
Qwen3 7 Max Preview——$2.50$7.50Available

Other Models

ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
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 Flash TTSFlash————
Qwen Audio 3.1 Flash RealtimeFlash——$0.230$0.930
Qwen Audio 3.1 Flash TTSFlash——$0.230$1.87
Qwen Audio 3 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40
Qwen Audio 3 Plus TTSPlus————
Qwen Audio 3.1 Plus RealtimePlus——$0.800$6.40

Model IDs

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