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Deprecated on Oct 9, 2026. 4 providers still list it at the prices below.

Qwen3 MaxDeprecated

AlibabaReleased Sep 23, 2025KnowledgeApr 2025
Tool usePrompt cachingStructured output
Compare Qwen3 MaxCount tokens for Qwen3 Max
Context
262K
Max output
66K
Serving providers
4
Cheapest input
$0.78 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis
Headline indices
Intelligence Index
15.6
of 100
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
CritPt0%default—
GPQA Diamond76%default—
Humanity's Last Exam12%default—
IFBench44%default—
LiveCodeBench77%default—
Long-Context Reasoning50%default—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202684%default—
Omniscience-43.5default—
Omniscience Accuracy0.2default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.1default—
SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 202638%——
TerminalBench Hard20%default—
τ²-bench74%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.78 to $2.11 per 1M tokens across 4 providers, so the dearest route costs 171% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
OpenRouterRouted quote$0.78$3.901
Standardqwen/qwen3-max
ComponentUnitStandard
Text cached in/1M tok$0.156
Text input/1M tok$0.78
Text output/1M tok$3.90
DeepInfra$1.20$6.001
VercelVercel reseller quote$1.20$6.001
Novita$2.11$8.451
Vercel (long context, from 32K tokens)Vercel reseller quote$2.40$12.001

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
Input down 43% since first tracked
$0.00$5.00$10.00Jan 13Jun 22Aug 28$6.00$1.20

Cost calculator

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$468
estimated / month

Model IDs

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qwen/qwen3-maxdeepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Maxalibaba/qwen3-maxnovita/qwen/qwen3-maxalibaba/qwen3-max

Frequently asked questions

Qwen3 Max pricing, context and availability

Is Qwen3 Max still available?

Qwen3 Max was deprecated on 2026-10-09, but 4 serving providers still list it.

How much does Qwen3 Max cost?

Qwen3 Max costs $0.78 per 1M input tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote, and $3.90 per 1M output tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day. Across 4 serving providers, input prices range from $0.78 to $2.11 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max accepts up to 262K tokens of context and can return up to 66K output tokens.

Which providers serve Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is available from 4 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenRouter is currently the cheapest, as a routed quote.

What can Qwen3 Max do?

Qwen3 Max supports tool use, prompt caching and structured output.

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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 9, 2026

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