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Qwen3 Max Thinking API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Qwen3 Max Thinking was released on February 9, 2026. 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 262K tokens. API access is available through Qwen.

Context Window
262K
tokens
Pricing
Input$1.20
Output$6.00
per 1M tokens
Speed
Output-
TTFT-
median latency
Capabilities
Text only

Pricing Comparison

Compare Qwen3 Max Thinking with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Coding
MMLU
GPQA
Context
Actions
$1.200
$6.000
262,144
Try
$1.000
$3.000
256,000
Try
$1.000
$5.000
51.1
80.0
64.6
200,000
Try
$1.000
$3.000
54.6
72.9
53.6
131,072
Try
$1.000
$1.000
29.5
68.9
47.1
127,072
Try
$1.000
$5.000
1,000,000
Try
$1.000
$1.000
131,072
Try
$1.100
$4.400
200,000
Try
$1.100
$4.400
85.9
83.2
78.4
200,000
Try
$1.100
$4.400
73.4
80.2
77.3
200,000
Try
$1.100
$4.400
71.7
79.1
74.8
200,000
Try

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

Compare Providers

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

1
Providers
$1.200
Cheapest Input/M
$6.000
Cheapest Output/M
Alibaba
Best Price

Provider Pricing

1 models

Provider
Input $/M
Output $/M
Uptime
A
Alibaba
Best Price
$1.200
$6.000
100.0%
Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3 Max Thinking costs $0.001200 per 1,000 input tokens and $0.006000 per 1,000 output tokens.
Qwen3 Max Thinking is available from 1 provider(s). Alibaba offers the best price.
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