Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking✓ Catalog verified
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.
Overview
Qwen3-Max-Thinking is the flagship reasoning model in the Qwen3 series, designed for high-stakes cognitive tasks that require deep, multi-step reasoning. By significantly scaling model capacity and reinforcement learning compute, it delivers major gains in factual accuracy, complex reasoning, instruction following, alignment with human preferences, and agentic behavior.
Access: available through the official Qwen API. Context window: 262K.
Specifications
| API identifier | qwen/qwen3-max-thinking |
| Provider | Qwen |
| Model type | Text LLM |
| Context window | 262K catalog |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Released | Feb 9, 2026 |
| Tokenizer | Qwen |
| Moderated | No |
| Architecture modality | text->text |
API defaults
{
"top_p": null,
"temperature": null,
"frequency_penalty": null
}Pricing
Live pricing components for qwen/qwen3-max-thinking 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 Thinking 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-thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum physics."}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Alternatives
Closest models by context window from a different provider.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input /1M | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Thinking 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 Thinking?
Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking supports up to 262K tokens of context.
Does Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking support tool / function calling?
Yes, Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking supports tool / function calling — you can register tools and the model will emit structured tool calls.
How do I access Qwen: Qwen3 Max Thinking?
Use the official Qwen API with the model id `qwen/qwen3-max-thinking`. See the Quick start section above for code examples.