Qwen3 Max API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 AM

Overview

Qwen3 Max was released on September 23, 2025. Pricing starts at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 256K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window

256K

tokens

Pricing

Input$1.20

Output$6.00

Cached$0.240

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output24 tok/s

TTFT1.90s

median latency

Capabilities

ToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen3 Max with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Max	$1.200	$6.000	76.7	84.1	76.4	256,000	Try
P Perplexity	Sonar	$1.000	$1.000	29.5	68.9	47.1	127,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen3 Coder Plus	$1.000	$5.000	—	—	—	128,000	Try
NO Nousresearch	Hermes 3 405B Instruct	$1.000	$1.000	—	—	—	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)	$1.000	$2.000	—	—	—	4,095	Try
NS Neversleep	Noromaid 20B	$1.000	$1.750	—	—	—	4,096	Try
O OpenAI	o4 Mini High	$1.100	$4.400	—	—	—	200,000	Try
O OpenAI	o4 Mini	$1.100	$4.400	85.9	83.2	78.4	200,000	Try
O OpenAI	o3 Mini High	$1.100	$4.400	73.4	80.2	77.3	200,000	Try
O OpenAI	o3 Mini	$1.100	$4.400	71.7	79.1	74.8	200,000	Try
M Nvidia	Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct	$1.200	$1.200	16.9	69.0	46.5	131,072	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Qwen3 Max is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$1.200

Cheapest Input/M

$6.000

Cheapest Output/M

OpenRouter

Best Price

Provider Pricing

2 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
OpenRouter Best Price	$1.200	$6.000	-
A Alibaba Best Price	$1.200	$6.000	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

31.0 (79th pct)

Coding

25.5 (70th pct)

Math

80.7 (77th pct)

MMLU Pro

84.1 (84th pct)

GPQA

76.4 (78th pct)

LiveCodeBench

76.7 (83th pct)

AIME

Aider

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard

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