Qwen3 Max
Qwen3 Max is a language model from Qwen released on Jan 1, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 262K token context window and up to 66K tokens per reply.
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It costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling and structured JSON output.
17 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.359 per million tokens at Alibaba (China).
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $1.20 / $6 per 1M
- Context
- 262K
- Max output
- 66K
- Released
- Jan 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Apr 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen3 Max pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $1.20 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $6 / 1M tokens |
Qwen3 Max providers
17 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.359 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba First party | $1.20 | $6 | – | 262K | 66K |
| Alibaba (China) | $0.359 | $1.43 | – | 262K | 66K |
| Merge Gateway | $0.359 | $1.43 | $0.0718 | 262K | 66K |
| OrcaRouter | $0.359 | $1.43 | – | 262K | 66K |
| Ofox | $0.36 | $1.43 | $0.072 | 262K | 66K |
| AIHubMix | $0.4508 | $2.70 | $0.0902 | 262K | 66K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.845 | $3.38 | $0.60 | 262K | 66K |
| LLM Gateway | $0.845 | $3.38 | – | 262K | 66K |
| 302.AI | $0.86 | $3.43 | – | 258K | 66K |
| Abacus | $1.20 | $6 | – | 131K | 16K |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway | $1.20 | $6 | – | 262K | 66K |
| Eden AI | $1.20 | $6 | $0.24 | 256K | 66K |
Showing 12 of 17 providers: the lab first, then the major clouds, then the cheapest resellers.
What Qwen3 Max costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen3 Max through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen3 Max questions
How much does the Qwen3 Max API cost?
$1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen3 Max?
262,144 tokens of input, and it can write up to 65,536 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Qwen3 Max?
17 providers serve it, including Alibaba (China), Merge Gateway and OrcaRouter. The lowest input price is $0.359 per million tokens at Alibaba (China). Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Qwen3 Max support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen3 Max open source?
No. Qwen serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Qwen3 Max released?
Jan 1, 2025, with training data up to Apr 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen3 Max?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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