Qwen3 Max
ActiveQwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It...
Overview
Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It...
History
Qwen3 Max became available via the Alibaba API on 2025-09-23.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2025-06-30 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. Alibaba has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 262K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Recommended for: long-context.
Limitations
- Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $0.7800 per 1M tokens
- Output: $3.9000 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the OpenRouter API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="sk-or-...",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
1 providerMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba | 28tok/s | 962ms | $0.78 | $3.9 | 262K | — | tools · json |
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Standard pricing band. Quality tier pending more benchmark coverage.
- Quality percentile
- —
- Effective price
- $3.12/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.78/1M in
$3.9/1M out
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