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Qwen3 Max Preview


Qwen3 Max Preview is Alibaba logoAlibaba'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 LLM, showcasing substantial gains in Chinese-English text understanding, complex instruction following, and sub-task handling.
Spec
Canonical IDalibaba-qwen3-max-preview
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorAlibabaAlibaba
Providers
Context Window262K tokens
Max Output66K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Release Date · 7 months ago
Intelligence Index
26.1
#85
Coding Index
25.5
#68
Math Index
75.0
#42
MMLU-Pro
0.8
#22
GPQA
0.8
#64
HLE
0.1
#77
LiveCodeBench
0.7
#55
IFBench
0.5
#68
Time to First Token
1.91s
#294
SciCode
0.4
#71
AIME 2025
0.8
#42
LCR
0.4
#91
TerminalBench Hard
0.2
#65
TAU2
0.3
#121
Output TPS
43.6
#158

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

Cost Calculator

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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Qwen3 9.23 MaxAvailable
Qwen3.5 Max258KAvailable
Qwen3 Max Thinking262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen3 Max Preview262K$1.20$6.00Current
Qwen3 Max262K$0.780$3.90Available
Qwen VL Max131K$0.520$2.08Available
Qwen-Max33K$1.04$4.16Available
Qwen2.5 MaxAvailable

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ModelTierReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1M
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B128K$0.060$0.090
Qwen 7 28 FlashFlash998K
Qwen 4 28 PlusPlus129K
Qwen 3 32B128K
Qwen3.5-FlashFlash1.0M$0.065$0.260
Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-02-15Plus1.0M$0.260$1.56
Qwen 1 25 PlusPlus129K
Qwen3.6 PlusPlus1.0M$0.325$1.95
Qwen3.6 Plus PreviewPlus1.0M
Qwen 3.5 FlashFlash1.0M$0.100$0.400

Model IDs