Model

Qwen3 Max

Name: Qwen3 Max
Brand: alibaba

Flagship Qwen3 model for coding agents, complex reasoning, and tool use

23 providers · 26 listingsreleased Sep 23, 2025knowledge cutoff 2025-04closed weights

$0.359

lowest input /M · OrcaRouter

$1.43

lowest output /M · Ofox

262K

context window

66K

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

19 of 23 providers publish a price for Qwen3 Max. The cheapest full-context option is Ofox at $0.36/$1.43 per M — 76% below Alibaba's own price. Listed prices span 6.3× for identical weights.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities
OrcaRouter qwen/qwen3-max	$0.359	$1.43	—	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Merge Gateway qwen/qwen3-max	$0.359	$1.43	$0.072	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Ofoxvariant qwen/qwen3-max	$0.36	$1.43	$0.072	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Ofoxvariant bailian/qwen3-max	$0.36	$1.43	$0.072	—	262K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Kilo Gateway qwen/qwen3-max	$0.78	$3.90	$0.156	$0.975	262K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
OpenRouter qwen/qwen3-max	$0.78	$3.90	$0.156	$0.975	262K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant novita/qwen3-max	$0.845	$3.38	—	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
DevPass (LLM Gateway) qwen3-max	$0.845	$3.38	$0.6	$3.75	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Alibaba (China) qwen3-max	$0.861	$3.44	—	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
EmpirioLabs AI qwen3-max	$1.08	$5.52	$1.08	—	256K	reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
LLM Gatewayvariant alibaba/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	$0.24	$1.50	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision	Sep 23, 2025
LLMTR qwen/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	—	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Alibaba qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	—	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Vercel AI Gateway alibaba/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	$0.24	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Cloudflare AI Gateway alibaba/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	—	—	262K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Deep Infra Qwen/Qwen3-Max	$1.20	$6	$0.24	—	256K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Abacus qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	—	—	131K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	May 28, 2025
ZenMux qwen/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	—	—	256K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	Jan 23, 2026
Eden AIvariant qwen/qwen3-max@eu	$1.20	$6	$0.24	$1.50	262K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025
Eden AIvariant qwen/qwen3-max	$1.20	$6	$0.24	$1.50	262K	no reasoningtoolsstructuredno vision	Sep 23, 2025

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.36unchanged
Best output /M: $1.43unchanged
Provider coverage: 26; 23 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

new modelvia ofox · Sep 11, 2026
capabilityvia merge-gateway · Sep 5, 2026
- structured_output: false → true
new modelvia cloudflare-ai-gateway · Aug 25, 2026
new modelvia edenai · Aug 25, 2026
repricedvia llmgateway-providers · Aug 24, 2026
- input: $3 → $1.20
- output: $15 → $6
- cache_read: $0.6 → $0.24
- cache_write: $3.75 → $1.50

Benchmarks

Artificial Analysis Coding Index ↗(index)report ↗Marketplace26.4
SciCode(percent correct)report ↗Marketplace38.3
Terminal-Bench Hard ↗(success rate)report ↗Marketplace20.5

Scores a lab published about its own model are claims, not measurements. Rankings elsewhere on this site use independently measured scores only.

Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.