Qwen: Qwen3 Max✓ Catalog verified
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.
Overview
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.
Access: available through the official Qwen API. Context window: 262K.
Specifications
| API identifier | qwen/qwen3-max |
| Provider | Qwen |
| Model type | Text LLM |
| Context window | 262K catalog |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Sep 23, 2025 |
| Tokenizer | Qwen3 |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text->text |
API defaults
{
"top_p": 1,
"temperature": 1,
"frequency_penalty": null
}Pricing
Live pricing components for qwen/qwen3-max as published in the catalog.
| Pricing component | Raw unit price | Normalized | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt tokens | $7.8e-7 | $0.78 / 1M | Per input token |
| Completion tokens | $0.0000039 | $3.90 / 1M | Per output token |
| Request fee | N/A | N/A | Per request |
| Image fee | N/A | N/A | Per image unit |
| Web search fee | N/A | N/A | Per search request |
Cost calculator
Estimate monthly spend from your own token volumes.
Estimated Total Cost
$1.17Calculated from current list pricing in the ModelsAtlas catalog.Capabilities
| Capability | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Understanding | Not advertised | Image and document analysis support |
| Audio Processing | Not advertised | Speech and voice aligned flows |
| Tool Calling | ✓ Supported | Supports tools / function calling |
| Self-Hosting | ✓ Supported | Deploy outside managed APIs |
Capability signals
Directional signals derived from model metadata and capability tags — not official benchmark submissions.
Quick start
Call Qwen: Qwen3 Max through an OpenAI-compatible client.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3-max",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 | Bytedance Seed | 262K | $0.25 | View → |
| ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash | Bytedance Seed | 262K | $0.07 | View → |
Sources & attribution
Pricing and metadata are maintained in the ModelsAtlas catalog.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Qwen: Qwen3 Max cost?
$0.78 per 1M input tokens and $3.90 per 1M output tokens on the official Qwen API.
What is the context window of Qwen: Qwen3 Max?
Qwen: Qwen3 Max supports up to 262K tokens of context.
Does Qwen: Qwen3 Max support tool / function calling?
Yes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Qwen: Qwen3 Max?
Use the official Qwen API with the model id `qwen/qwen3-max`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.