Qwen 3 Max Thinking
Qwen 3 Max Thinking is a reasoning model from Qwen released on Jan 23, 2026. It reads text and writes text, with a 256K 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. Cached input bills at $0.24, 80% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $1.20 / $6 per 1M
- Context
- 256K
- Max output
- 66K
- Released
- Jan 23, 2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jan 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Qwen 3 Max Thinking 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 | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.24 / 1M tokens | 80% off input |
| Prompts over 32K | $2.40 in, $12 out | long context rate |
| Prompts over 128K | $3 in, $15 out | long context rate |
What Qwen 3 Max Thinking costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Qwen 3 Max Thinking through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Qwen 3 Max Thinking questions
How much does the Qwen 3 Max Thinking API cost?
$1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.24. Prompts over 32K tokens bill at $2.40 input and $12 output. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Qwen 3 Max Thinking?
256,000 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.
Does Qwen 3 Max Thinking support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Qwen 3 Max Thinking open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Qwen 3 Max Thinking released?
Jan 23, 2026, with training data up to Jan 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Qwen 3 Max Thinking?
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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