Qwen3 Max
by Alibaba (Qwen)Chat
Flagship Qwen model for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows
- Context
- 262K tokens
- Max output
- 65,536 tokens
- Parameters
- 1T (total or active not stated)
- Released
- 2025-09-23
- Weights
- Closed
alibaba/qwen3-max · also seen as qwen3-max-2025-09-23, qwen/qwen3-max, bailian/qwen3-max, qwen/qwen3-max-2026-01-23, +3 more
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-09-23
- Weights
- Closed
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 262,144 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 65,536
- Providers
- 7 + 14 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 142.3 ± 2.2 against price
- Direct price range
- $0.359–$2.110 in · $1.43–$8.45 out per 1M tokens · 3 of 7 providers have a comparable price
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-09-22
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-04
- Parameters
- 1T (total or active not stated)
- Developer country
- China
- Training compute
- 1.5×10²⁵ FLOP
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel tools
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messages
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.359 in / $1.43 out per 1M tokens at Alibaba (China) on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed 2.0 LiteByteDance Seed | $0.542 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 131K | +1% |
| Seed 1.6ByteDance Seed | $0.542 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 256K | +1% |
| Seed 1.6 (250615)ByteDance Seed | $0.542 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 256K | +1% |
| Seed 1.6 (250915)ByteDance Seed | $0.542 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 256K | +1% |
| Seed 1.8ByteDance Seed | $0.542 | $0.25 | $2.00 | 256K | +1% |
| Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba (Qwen) | $0.543 | $0.203 | $2.24 | 262K | +1% |
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1Mistral AI | $0.533 | $0.488 | $0.758 | 32.8K | −1% cheaper |
| Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | $0.548 | $0.51 | $0.74 | 8.2K | +2% |
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