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Qwen: Qwen3 Max

qwen/qwen3-max

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Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version. It delivers higher accuracy in math, coding, logic, and science tasks, follows complex instructions in Chinese and English more reliably, reduces hallucinations, and produces higher-quality responses for open-ended Q&A, writing, and conversation. The model supports over 100 languages with stronger translation and commonsense reasoning, and is optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool calling, though it does not include a dedicated “thinking” mode.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.78 / $3.90per 1M

Context

262K

Released

Sep 23, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Jun 2025

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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

About Qwen: Qwen3 Max

OpenRouter makes Qwen: Qwen3 Max available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID qwen/qwen3-max. It is served by Alibaba Cloud Int..

Qwen: Qwen3 Max accepts text and returns text. It has a 262,144-token context window and a maximum output of 65,536 tokens.

On OpenRouter, Qwen: Qwen3 Max costs $0.78/M input tokens and $3.90/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.156/M tokens, Cache Creation (5min) at $0.975/M tokens and Cache Read (5min) at $0.078/M tokens. Effective pricing can be lower when prompt caching applies. It was released on September 23, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2025.

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Frequently asked questions

Qwen3-Max is an updated release built on the Qwen3 series, offering major improvements in reasoning, instruction following, multilingual support, and long-tail knowledge coverage compared to the January 2025 version.

Qwen3 Max costs $0.78/M input tokens and $3.90/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.156/M tokens, Cache Creation (5min) at $0.975/M tokens and Cache Read (5min) at $0.078/M tokens.

Qwen3 Max has a 262,144 token context window. It supports up to 65,536 completion tokens.

Yes. Qwen3 Max accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

Qwen3.8 27B, Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B, Qwen3.8 Max and 46 more are other text models from Qwen.

Qwen3 Max was released on September 23, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2025.

$0.78$3.90$0.156$0.975$0.0780.73s48 tps
100.00%

Throughput

48tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.73s

P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.90%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.90%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.86%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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