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Qwen3 Max

CTX262K

61Quality

Tools

Input$1.20/M

Output$6/M

Flagship Qwen3 model for coding agents, complex reasoning, and tool use

PaidProprietary661/1040

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Qwen3 Max

Flagship Qwen3 model for coding agents, complex reasoning, and tool use

qwen3-max

Type: Text
Quality: 61 · Top 39% on the Epoch Capabilities Index
Context window: 262,144 tokens
Max output: 65,536 tokens
Input price: $1.20 / 1M tokens
Output price: $6.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: —
Cache write: —
Released: Sep 23, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Apr 2025
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: No
Access: Paid
License: Proprietary
Rarity: Uncommon
Set number: 661/1040

Open Qwen docs Quality 61 Where to run it 19 Evolution 2/5 Meet its creature Battle Grok 4.7

Weights aren’t public. Use is governed by Qwen’s terms. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 18, 2026. Official source: www.alibabacloud.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Qwen3 Max, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 39% of the 277 models on the Epoch Capabilities Index: #108.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

Epoch Capabilities Index#108 of 277
One number fitted from dozens of hard benchmarks, from science questions to agentic coding.142.3 index
LMArena Text#77 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,439 rating
Listed as qwen3-max-preview
LMArena Text · Coding#89 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,456 rating
Listed as qwen3-max-preview
LMArena Text · Math#75 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,446 rating
Listed as qwen3-max-preview
LMArena Text · Creative writing#100 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,401 rating
Listed as qwen3-max-preview

Benchmarks Epoch AI runs

Scores from Epoch AI and LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

19 providers sell Qwen3 Max through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestOfox$0.36 in · $1.43 out
Free to try3 providersAlibaba Coding Plan, Alibaba Coding Plan (China), iFlow
From the labAlibaba$1.20 in · $6.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Alibaba Coding PlanFree`qwen3-max-2026-01-23`	Free	Free	262K
Alibaba Coding Plan (China)Free`qwen3-max-2026-01-23`	Free	Free	262K
iFlowFree`qwen3-max`	Free	Free	256K
OfoxCheapest paid`qwen/qwen3-max`	$0.36	$1.43	256K
Alibaba (China)`qwen3-max`	$0.36	$1.43	262K
Merge Gateway`qwen/qwen3-max`	$0.36	$1.43	262K
OrcaRouter`qwen/qwen3-max`	$0.36	$1.43	262K
AIHubMix`qwen3-max`	$0.45	$2.70	262K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`qwen3-max`	$0.84	$3.38	262K
LLM Gateway`novita/qwen3-max`	$0.84	$3.38	262K

Show 9 more providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
Abacus`qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	131K
AlibabaOfficial`qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	262K
Cloudflare AI Gateway`alibaba/qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	262K
Deep Infra`Qwen/Qwen3-Max`	$1.20	$6.00	256K
Eden AI`deepinfra/Qwen/Qwen3-Max`	$1.20	$6.00	256K
LLMTR`qwen/qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	256K
ZenMux`qwen/qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	256K
NanoGPT`qwen/qwen3-max`	$1.20	$6.00	256K
Qiniu`qwen3-max`	—	—	262K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Leaderboards

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